Quotes About Creativity

You can use cheap technology to get a great look.

When I was 14, I bought myself a cheap electric guitar and tried to teach myself.

You can't cheat comedy. You know, it either is going to be there on the day you capture or it's not.

I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios desgraciados. My plan was to write a book about how people deal with love and loss.

I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.

When we go back to Samoa, where my mother was born, we always check out the art by local artists.

That's where I think a lot of these guys today are just, 'I'm the drummer, man. Check it out. Here's my lick. I just learned this new drum lick. I'm just gonna blast all over the place.' It's like, 'Man, you've got to let the song breathe.'

I feel like the job in editing is to let the movie tell you what it is. So again, it's like sculpture. You just start taking away, you add a nose here, you cut off, like, the side of the cheek over here in the crease, and you have a face. But it really reveals to you what it means to be over time, and if you have enough time.

Rick Rubin eats no cheese.

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.

Even a song like 'Give Love,' in my head, there's a question as I'm writing it, going, 'Is this cheesy? Is it too on the nose to say 'give love?''

I never wanted to write really cheesy pop lyrics - like, 'baby, baby, the sun is shining' - that's not something that interests me personally. I'm always wanting to write something that has some kind of meaning.

You don't become a chef to become famous.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a chef. I'd love to open a restaurant.

Im a chef. Ive been cooking for 26 years, and, you know, theres probably not a lot of things that I havent tried in my life.

Essentially, for me, the whole point of being a chef is to have your own restaurant.

You don't go into being a chef for the money.

I think the goal of 'Chef's Table' is that you are so moved by the story that you want to go and eat that person's food at their restaurant. But I wanted the takeaway from my show to be that you go and cook the thing.

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

Chefs are leaders in their own little world.

Chefs become attracted to being able to get product and then clientele - those are the two things that attract you as a chef.

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

I guess all bands get to that point where they run out of inspiration and just get bored with the chemistry.

The camera and I have always had good chemistry.