Quotes About Creativity

I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.

As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe.

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

I kept notebooks as a kid, and they were important to me.

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think.

I am always looking for material - whether for my notebooks or for Twitter or Instagram - which means I'm looking for meaning.

A lot of Filipinas are really into fashion, and there are so many noted Filipino designers around the world.

When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.

And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.

Once you start to play together, vibing off each other in the scene, it's not just the notes - it's the music. The script might be the notes playing, but we're making it music.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

In live action, sometimes a mood or a feeling can go on for quite a while. Animation is a lot more effort. There are a lot more notes.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

Playing with words is like combining different notes in music.

Songs, for me, are notes from the heart.

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

I don't have a drawer full of ideas. I kind of look around and take notes and wonder what could actually be a whole movie. And each time, I think I'm going to do it more commercial this time; I'm going to get a big budget and make it. But I always come up with some small idea.