Quotes About Creativity

I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.

When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right reasons.

The Internet is a good way to try some stuff with no big crew and no money being spent. Since there are no stakes to it, you can try to be a little experimental.

I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy.

There are so many different things that lend themselves to what makes a song magical, that go beyond just the lyrics or the composition. But arrangement and production and performance have such huge stakes in what makes that sort of lightning-in-a-bottle moment.

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

If you do the same thing over and over again, then you will definitely get stale and jaded like most actors do.

I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.

An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them.

I feel like if you shoot one scene all day long or you take two days to do a scene, that scene is going to be stale.

I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale.

Stuff starts to feel stale comedically when you're just rehashing things, so putting together a writers' room where the majority is made up of people who have not been the focus of the story, it flips everything around.

The hard part of not working is occupying the mind. If an actor doesn't work, he grows stale.

I think when artists close their ears to any music, when they won't do anything besides country music or rock music, they get stale.

We're professionals and we made a pact to each other when we created the show that if we ever felt it was getting stale or repetitious or not pushing the format in new and interesting ways, we would stop doing it.

Show business is stale ideas and stale actors.

Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers, cook my breakfast and then settle down in front of the word processor, usually by 8 A.M. I'll write, and then check e-mail or voicemail when things stall.

Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.

Movie-making is an extreme sport on many levels. It requires stamina such as I had never imagined.