Quotes About Creativity

I'm a '70s guy at heart. I play a lot of Bowie and 10cc at home.

Bowie's my hero.

There are times between five and seven when this house is like a bowling alley, but it's reinspired me. My acting has gotten better because of these kids. I feel the same spirit I did when I was doing Off-Broadway.

If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power.

I'm not going to put myself in a box.

Color has always been important to me, ever since my first deluxe box of Crayolas.

If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.

I like more the fact that I like to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box goes along with dressing out of the box and living out of the box.

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be put in a box.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

I want to do parts that are outside of the box.

I want to live outside of the box, and I definitely don't want to put God in a box, so I want to be able to dream big and kind of let that go of my small-mindedness.

It's so important to adapt, think outside the box, and stay ahead if you want to grow.

Over the years, my art box has gotten bigger and bigger.

The box office isn't something I consider. If I do, I can't really work.

I really didn't want to be boxed into becoming a certain kind of film-maker - becoming the Maori story film-maker because I had made those short films.

Black women in music are always expected to sing R&B or soul: we are always boxed in.

With 'Boxer,' we made the kind of music we wanted to make and didn't really worry about what the expectation was.

It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.

There are no Kleenex boxes on these loops, just so you know.

I want to produce. I want to direct. I want to be my own camera man. I want my own boxing club. I have it all written down. I want to do everything.

There's so much talent around here, east London in particular is full of talent. Whether that be boxing or football or music.