Quotes About Creativity

I just didn't want a musical side of me being prosperous but I'm dying on the inside.

Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating.

I wanted to be a prosthetic makeup artist after watching 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.

I'm kind of a dummy. I make movies and not realize until afterwards, 'Oh, I'm the protagonist.'

Why should I limit myself or drive myself towards a woman-centric film. Sometimes, the most interesting role is not that of the protagonist.

What happens with a good score is, somehow the composer manages to cast himself or herself in the role of the protagonist. And then you write from their perspective.

I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.

Technology people have as much interest in protecting patents as the entertainment industry.

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

Every new idea in any field needs protection.

When you work in a creative environment, people get protective about their ideas. Sometimes it's justified; sometimes it's about ego.

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me, and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.

Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.

The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?