Quotes About Creativity

I can make something for a long time and just not come up with an ending. It's finishing things that I don't enjoy.

I think fashion shows are a full stop. You need a point where there's no return, and fashion shows create a 'That's it; that's the finishing line.'

You don't realize how beautiful an idea is until you do it with other people. There's this really shimmery, awesome thing when you start finishing a song - where the song just starts writing itself.

While writing, I'm always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, 'I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.'

When I was finishing 'Now You See Me 2,' I remember thinking about exploring the Asian-American identity side of my brain.

If I make a film like 'Better Luck Tomorrow' or 'Finishing the Game,' I'll protect it with everything I have.

I just hope to continue making and finishing films. And then get them seen.

Make-up is a natural extension of dance for me. It gives the finishing touches to my art enhancement.

We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.

I think finite series gives you more time to write down your journey in any show. When it's a finite series, you know the start and know your end. The writers and actors know what is going to happen, so the interest is not lost.

The very design of 'Breaking Bad' was that it was a finite, close-ended series.

I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

I want my children to experience as much creativity as possible. That's what sets your mind on fire.

You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a desire to challenge and question authority, and that's where the fire inside comes from. I challenged authority out of a desire to make things better, not to be nihilistic about it.

Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.

I got fired from being a lunch-shift bartender because I had a reading of a play.

By no means did my first book sell. I took a few runs at it. You'll never see those early efforts 'cause they're burned, straight to the fireplace where they belong.

I can't imagine doing anything cooler or better than what we did on 'The Stage' and felt like we're firing on all cylinders.

I believe I am standing firm as a black woman in this industry in a time that it is hard as an artist period.

Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don't personally design it, I'll review it. I'm kind of creative director of the firm.

I always, as a firm rule, make my movies based on how inexpensively I can make them because that means the more freedom I'm going to have.

I always worry what I would have done if I hadn't found comedy. I think what would I have ended up doing? I've worked in a construction firm, fashion company just all things where I wasn't very good at my job.

I am a firm believer that the craziest stories that have been told and are being told are in anime. They have character arcs that go over, like, 400 episodes, like a 400-episode character arc.

I'm a firm believer in putting your experiences in your writing, of bleeding into the page.