Quotes About Creativity

I spent a lot of time in hospitals as a child with these dreadful calliper things, and in push-chairs and God knows what else. I had no interest in sport and no ability at it, and so on. But on the other hand, I had a very powerful imaginative life.

I need time to do whatever I want to do. What happens to an actor that has no life experience? They don't know how to act as a different role. So, that's really important to do.

If you book the same models that look and act the same in every show - I get the continuity, and it is beautiful to see, but there's also no life to it. I'm personally not a fan of that.

There is no limit to how far drag can go.

I'm proud to live in a country where our differences are celebrated - and if we continue to embrace them, then there will be no limit to our creative success.

I'd get bored if I... if I had to do a movie, and there was no love story in it, I would just be bored. I mean, I would do it, but it would be kind of boring.

On an independent film where you're working with just a handful of people, you don't have to explain anything because no one cares. You can do whatever you want. There's no one there to tell you not to do it.

I feel like with the first 'Insidious' film we had a massive cache of stories and scares that we'd built up over the years. It was like a band, you know they say a band has forever to write their first album because no one cares.

You get older and come to the conclusion that it's a great gig making music. Even if you turn into an old gnarly fart, no one cares what you look like if you write good songs - the only gig is to sing well and perform.

Sometimes we get bored and want to shake up our format. It's a luxury we have on public access - no one cares about us. It literally doesn't matter if we fail, so sometimes we try to go really big and out of the box.

Lyrics are no more important than the music. There's no point in forcing them on people.

I feel like women are so specific and special, that there's no point as a woman to emulate somebody. If you shoot for a masculine direction but be yourself, you're going to get something completely new, because your femininity will show up.

I have come to the conclusion there is no point making anything if you're not going to make people laugh and cry.

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

And at no point did making 'Brothers McMullen' feel like work or hardship. It was really just a matter of 11 days of fun over the course of 8 months.

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60. I don't know, that's a commercial thing, but just the fact that other people like you... there's no point in making music, otherwise. Otherwise, you might as well make it in your bedroom and leave it there.

There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.

You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.

For me, there's no point in being an artist and putting yourself out there if you're not going to really put yourself out there.

If I can't connect emotionally with the music I'm making, there's no point making it in the first place.

If the script doesn't excite me, there's no point working on the music.

Voice work is the best - no need to dress up, no audience, no pressure, nobody's judging you.