Quotes About Creativity

I literally said it was my dream in life to direct a Charlie Kaufman movie.

In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.

I want to make the kind of films that Charlie Chaplin did.

Kamal Haasan got inspired by his brief appearance in a role similar to Charlie Chaplin in 'Punnagai Mannan' and developed that into a full-fledged character in 'Apoorva Sagodharargal.'

I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we don't even know, and make music and whatever.

Good Charlotte is the reason I started playing guitar.

I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.

Even when I was writing 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' I started to appreciate Seattle's many charms.

You make a record because you have to chart your progress, not only for yourself, but for your audience.

I never thought I would go into the dance charts.

When you try and appeal to the most people, you end up not actually making anything unique, because to be at the top of the charts I guess you have to do something quite bland so as to please as many people as possible.

I have to write pretty songs; that's what gets them on the charts.

We want people who work for us to be entrepreneurs. We like them to look at ideas. We like them to chase ideas. We like them to not be what I call a caretaker of an asset.

I am not trying to chase what other people are doing.

I'm not trying to chase a radio hit, but at a certain time, you can't make the same album over and over.

It gives me cancer to have an idea but not do it. Whether I get into trouble for it is not as important as the need to chase the idea.

I can have people around a lot more because I'm not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.

The thing is that when I'm making music, I'm not really chasing that sound - the Atlanta sound that we hear a lot.

For 'Black Beatles' to be so true to us and our sound - we weren't chasing a sound - it solidifies that the world is ready for us and what we have to come.

Sometimes people chat loosely. Sometimes people just speak their minds and what's on their mind ain't necessarily real or facts, so I don't take it too serious. I'm more interested in making the music, I don't really play that.

I write scripts, I read scripts, I meet people who chat about their scripts. So honestly, I don't feel bad if I don't act in a film, as long as people are making great films.

Yeah and that's the thing, you can have a 100 different chat shows, they can all look the same and do the same thing, but if you can get in there and set something apart, you win.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.