Quotes About Creativity

When I was younger, I was nervous and didn't have a huge amount of confidence as an actor. Comedy is something - you know when you're getting it right because you can hear. And you can hear if you're not getting it right! I like to create interesting, weird characters, and they're often best in comedies.

I've never followed a list in my life, and that's probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.

For any YouTuber, if you're too nervous to have somebody else document, it may be that what you're putting out there isn't authentic.

As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

At first, I ain't gon' lie, I used to be a little nervous about what people were gon' think about my music, but once I let that go, then everything started happening.

It's hard not to read the success of someone like Hilary Mantel as the product of a world that is too nervous, too crazy, and perhaps too interesting for some people.

Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.

As a kid, I drew comics. I had curly hair. I liked to joke, but I was kind of nervous about it at first until it was coaxed out of me.

During every book, I have a nervous breakdown. Usually it's about two thirds of the way through the book - I'm just comatose on the couch for at least a week, and I eventually break through it and have an answer about how to fix the thing.

My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come back to you.

I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.

Improv is so freeing because there are no bounds; there's no safety net. You just say something and get an instant response.

Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they're just willing to take chances, you know, and there's a market for it.

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

The main thing that's important to me is getting to do whatever project it is the way that I do what I do, and that's different. To go to an entity - whether it's a traditional film studio or some newer company, or HBO, Amazon or Netflix - they would have to know that I need to work the way I work.

It's so amazing that you can give somebody like David Fincher 'House of Cards,' and he can do whatever he wants - Netflix doesn't say, 'Oh, you can't do that,' or, 'We need a subplot here about this.' It's pretty neat that it is allowing the creatives to be creative.

Being on Netflix lets us be experimental. We can do crazy things.

I want to make my own Netflix originals.

Creating anything new is incredibly difficult. It's just so much easier to sit on the couch and watch Netflix and just consume.

FX is a network; that's their whole model, letting creators make the thing they want to make and then marketing it really well.

There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.

In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.