Quotes About Creativity

Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.

I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I found that this was the thing I wanted to do.

I don't like working in front of a camera.

I love acting; I don't want to give up on it at all, but it would be nice to step behind the camera once in a while as well.

My friends love this idea of me as half man, half camera.

Sometimes the character will go into a completely different direction than I expected once the cameras start rolling. That's what I love about what I do.

What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.

You have two choices: You can take what you're given or build with what you've got. I choose to build with what I've got and try to make the best of it because I've still been given a stage. I've still got cameras in front of my face when I want them, and I plan to run with it.

It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're crazy. But he doesn't force it on you. He doesn't force anything on you, which really makes things easier.

In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.

'Camp' sort of means you don't know what you're doing, and we know what we're doing.

My dad put me in a theater group camp at Santa Monica Playhouse when I was, like, six, and then I started to realize I really liked it when I was 11 or 12; it was nice to just escape.

It is very challenging to work with the Bhatt Camp as they have great sense of music.

When I do an editorial or when I do a campaign, I bring that lens to every space.

I'd love to go back to Broadway; I'd love to do animation; I'd love to do hair and make-up campaigns because I love hair and makeup - and, I'd love to do film. I mean, there are a lot of doors I'd love to open up!

For awhile the only thing people were talking to me about my music, that's all they ever said: 'You must be a nature lover. Are you camping all the time?'

We didn't go to any summer camps because we just wanted to be making movies and telling stories.

Some newer writers worry about books set in Canada having a big appeal, but it has never been an issue for me. I haven't wanted to write in the States because I don't know the States.

I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.

Canadians can be funny.

I always saw candy as art.

My passion is really candy, but I know that I can use art and fashion as inspiration.

We were fortunate enough to shoot 'Alps' - write the script and shoot it - right after 'Dogtooth' premiered in Cannes. So we didn't just sit around and wait to figure out what to do because 'Dogtooth' was successful. We just wanted to make another film fast, so we just went ahead and did it.