Quotes About Creativity

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

The artist is a combination of what's happened to them in their lives and how it's filtered through the way they think. That's what makes me different than Samantha Brown or Anthony Bourdain.

I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don't help me at all.

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.

I was given a chance to re-haul 'New Mutants' and take it from the dog of the 'X-Men' office to 1 million copies with its final issue.

First hand on 'Go Goa Gone' I learnt how to write on final drafts, how the process works.

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them.

You can take your life into your own hands in terms of directing. There are ways for you to finance yourself and to write and make a film.

I'm 100 percent in control of my artistry, music, and finances.

Legacy above finances; artistry above fame.

I love spreadsheets. I do all the finances. I pay the publicists. I have to compartmentalize the creative and the business, so there are sacrifices. But ultimately, I get to be the CEO of my own business.

I always wanted to make 'Freedom,' but I had to drop the idea due to financial crisis.

I like to work with directors where you feel they make the movies not for the audience, but make them for themselves. They don't care if it's a success financially. That's what I like.

I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.

My whole career this is the biggest failure financially, but at the same time, it's one of my favorite things I've ever done.

I think I feel that way - that filmmaking is a responsibility, not only creatively but also financially in that it's a business. You can't forget that.

I just have to sell enough records to continue financing making more records.

When I was younger, I worked for several years composing music for commercials, but I was very happy to give that up. I didn't really like it, it was a way of financing my bands.

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.