Quotes About Creativity

Even with a big budget, you can make a niche film.

Rock music is niche.

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

One has to create music with mass appeal and not something which is niche. With niche music, you will only go a small distance.

We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.

I think when you come from a house full of artists, everyone's got their niche.

I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.

For so long, TV consisted of a limited number of shows a year, and those shows had to appeal to as many people as possible. The joy of TV now is that shows don't have to be broad anymore - they can be small, weird, and niche.

In music you can find your own niche. You can do what you want to do. There is really no job description. You have to find your own way, and that's fun.

Everyone has a little niche in rap, and I just wanted to carve a piece out of it for myself.

Only a niche section of parents allow their children to take up courses on film and television.

My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.

I think 'Nick and Norah' was a huge deal for me. It was my first foray into the studio world, and that character was such a gift.

Nick Hornby's a genius.

When Nickelodeon, in 2009, told us they wanted us to come back and do another series where we could do whatever we wanted, the first thought we had was: Let's do a story about the next 'Avatar.' That was the first thought. The second thought was: Let's make it a girl.

I just like to draw and put ideas down. And every idea that Nickelodeon doesn't buy I put on the Noog Network.

My dad's nickname was MacGyver when we were kids. He'd hijack my projects all the time. When I got older, he would not do it as much... but he would just end up hijacking the whole thing. You should see the look in his eyes when he gets to create stuff.

I think that 'Cry Baby' came from a nickname I was called as a kid.

I started drawing a mouse because it was my father's nickname for my mother. And mice are very expressive.

I have always wanted to sing at some point in my life. In fact, when I was shooting for 'Oohalu Gusagusalaade,' I would randomly start singing on the sets, and I even earned a nickname 'Radio' on that film.

Carey Mulligan- I'd love to dress her. And Nicole Kidman.

I started really idolizing people like Nicole Holofcener and Whit Stillman.

The woman I'd want to meet the most is Nicole Holofcener. I've loved every single film she's done. I think her films are deeply comedic while being deeply disturbing and dark.

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.