Quotes About Creativity

I'd take bits and pieces from a fighter, if I liked what they did, and I'd put it in my arsenal. I never wanted to fight like or be like any other fighter. I wanted a style that was unique for me.

We're not just fighters, we're entertainers.

I don't want to look like all the other fighters. I've been proud to not be or act or look like any other fighters.

When you put on clothes that are fighting against something, you can feel your courage grow. Clothing can set you free.

My fights and arguments, even with God, went down on paper.

There's only so many things you can do with fights, so I'm always trying to shake it up and find something different, new, exciting and fun.

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.

I've never been interested in dressing one woman. What's interested me was to have a philosophy. It hasn't been important to put a woman in a blue dress. I wanted to dress women who wanted to look at themselves. To stand out. To be women who were not part of the crowd. A woman who fights and advances.

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

I love working with a set designer because, in many respects, you meet the set designer before you meet the actors. So it's a chance for me as a director to figure out what I'm thinking and to explore how the space is going to actually be activated.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

I've done figure drawing classes or whatever.

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

I don't watch scripted television, and I finally figured out why. It's my line of work, you know? It's what I do.

I want to be an artist, not be in the business of making hit records. Once I figured that out, everything became clear.

Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.

If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.

I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together.

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do.

I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

I used to study 'Hunky Dory' - and be mad that I hadn't figured out anything that cool!

I've finally figured out how to make a Rodney Crowell record, and that's let it be, leave the mistakes.

I liked writing before I figured out I liked acting.