Quotes About Creativity

I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.

Perfect is boring.

Life should never be boring.

If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.

It can get a bit boring working on accents.

The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

I don't want to sing boring pop songs - I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.

Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this: you didn't have to borrow from an emotionally and visually upsetting past, as one did in fiction, apparently, to write your story.

Many people came out and said, 'Boy I'd love to make a film that way.' Well, borrow some money, get some people together - you can get people to work for nothing, just treat them right, treat them as human beings, not stars, give them all an equal share, make them feel a part of what they're doing. There's no big secret to it.

When I was 16, I watched a lot of world cinema. I borrowed a lot of my personality from cinema. It has been one of my biggest teachers.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

I remember borrowing my mum's Instamatic 110 camera as a kid and doing still lifes of tennis balls and benches and thinking they were going to be something really amazing. They ended up being really bad.

We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.

The reason I wanted to do a webcomic was that I could be my own boss, and I could call the shots myself.

When you become your own boss, and your artwork becomes your livelihood, it becomes the only thing you think about.

The writer's room is super-chill - Donald, of course being my brother, helps. My boss is my brother, in a way; we can talk on a regular level.

I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I tried to make it as a musician. I lived in a big squalid house full of dudes outside of Boston. We were all musicians. We built this studio in the basement and played there all hours of the day.

To support myself as a kid, I was a model at art schools around Boston.

Whenever Boston comes on, I play air guitar.