Quotes About Creativity

J. K. Rowling is one of my favourite authors, and I really admire how she created this big wizarding world. But I think our books are very, very different, and I don't think there can be a next J. K. Rowling. She is one of a kind.

One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important.

Some of my favourite record and album covers and stuff have all been the singer, and they create a character, and they dress up a little bit.

One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.

For me, to be in a place where I'm on the 'favourite' list of top directors I like, that's being number one. There is no other definition to me. It's not money; it's not how many songs you're seen in or how many clothes you're changing in the film.

Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really pick out favourites.

I used to read a lot of fashion magazines: my favourite was 'Nylon.' I used to cut out all the pictures from magazines, and I had this book where I would keep all of the stuff that inspired me.

It was just the next logical step from making succinct pop songs. What do you do after that? You make pop songs that are longer and more epic, that push the envelope. Imagine your favourite song, or something that you play over and over in the car, except that you don't have to start it over as much.

Adele's one of my favourite artists!

My favourite chord? Bb6th with added 9th.

I like all kinds of films; 'Bommarillu' is a favourite film. But I can't make that kind of film.

Any film, whether it worked at the box office or not, I'll have my favourite moments from it.

My favourite designer was Alexander McQueen. His lines were different every time.

My favourite place was in The Congo. It's where I began to write songs and build myself as an adult.

If it ain't baroque, don't fax it.

I have a fear of being boring.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

I have no literary fears.

A lot of my fears come out in my work rather than life.

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

One of my fears is not writing. I don't know how to do anything else.

I am a person beset with fears, and one of my fears is that this thing that I will be writing for five years won't work. And the likelihood, of course, is that it won't - and that's fine.

If you are making a film for the first time, you have all the problems and fears. Yet, you have the freedom that you will never get in life.

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.