Quotes About Creativity

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you.

For me, being independent is about being able to express myself exactly how I want to, instead of maximising profits.

I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.

I find that when you lead with vision and values, engaging employees and showing them that values are just as important as profits, everyone comes on board. And not only do they come on board, but they connect to their own individual creativity.

Not to invent yourself is to be false. To follow preordained rules is a profound betrayal of what it means to be human.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.

To me, fiction is the single best way there is - to me, it's the most profound way - of dealing with questions that have no answers.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound.

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.

Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'

Moving to San Francisco affected me in a pretty profound way, in a lot of respects. I think it helped me evolve my sound and think outside of the space I'd been in in Sacramento. The scene there is so insular and kind of feeds on itself: you just end up playing the same shows with the same people for the same people.

I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.

The goal every day of my life is to make some sort of artistic difference on a more profound level than just moshing.

I love Richmond. I think growing up here had a profound influence on my music.

Chuck Berry had a very profound impact on me. The man was a genius.