Quotes About Creativity

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

The acting bug first bit when I went to see 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' at the Old Vic.

He wasn't Bugs without the gags we gave him.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

My dad was a builder, so I didn't have any connection to the arts at all. I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder.

If I wasn't doing music, I might have been a builder.

I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.

The arts give kids the building blocks with which to then play.

A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A.

In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.

My buildings are all on budget.

I love buildings that aren't purpose-built.

I'd go so far as to say I was bullied into writing, but sometimes you need that.

It's wrong to become a bully yourself or to take it out on other people, and in my case, I just retreated to a place where I was safe. And that place was my imagination, books, and television.

The bullying was so bad that I got to go to the arts high school instead.

Money wasn't important to me. Once I discovered music, I was quite happy to live as a bum. As long as I had my music and my band, I was happy.

Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other.

We don't ever want to be this political band. We're just a bunch of dudes.

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

I love doing a film with a new bunch of people.

It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.

I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.

Growing up, I loved magic, I loved acting, I loved comedy. I really didn't know what direction I was going. I was trying a whole bunch of stuff.

Acting isn't like being an athlete. There's no real quantifiable measure. It's just a bunch of people feeling things.