Quotes About Creativity

Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.

I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have liked to do. I'd always wanted to write a book - not a small undertaking. I never felt I had the time or creative energy to spare in order to write one as well as I wanted.

I just remember when I came out of film school - and I loved film school - that the industry was such a mystery. How to break in, and once you are in, how to make a film; that is such a large undertaking. There are thousands of pitfalls.

Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.' Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into.

I think pattern makers are some of the most underrated, undervalued people in fashion. They're the people who are sometimes the geniuses in designing clothing.

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

Cooks are an undervalued, awesome profession.

You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write.

I think singing is such an important and incredible art form and it is quite undervalued at times.

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.

Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.

I had a Spider-man costume when I was about three, and I lost the mask. So I went to the underwear drawer and put a pair of red pants on my head. My dad came home and just laughed, and I ran into my room and burst into tears.

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.

At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.

I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.

It's understandably obvious, when I was making 'Company,' of the underworld genre, people would compare it to 'Satya.'

Everyone is making the same kind of shows, about underworld and things like that. So I am hoping somebody breaks this trend, else we will again enter the same grind.

'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it.

Music permeates everything I do. I love everything from Grace Jones to Nicki Minaj to Underworld to D.J. MikeQ and beyond. Music is integral to my personal inspiration.

People feel I only make films on underworld, but that's not true.

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

I'm still undisciplined in the fact that I'm not writing anything down. I just get these lines and start piecing it together and then going back.