Quotes About Creativity

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.

I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.

I love being part of cinema and I don't see myself doing anything else.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

For me, cinema is happiness.

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.

I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?'

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.

Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?

For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.

I am interested in independent cinema and theatre, and they don't make news.

I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.

I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.

I really do believe that the experience of having a child is going to actually make me a much better cinematographer.

A period film is a gift for a cinematographer.

I'm usually known for films that look beautiful and attractive, probably because I am a cinematographer too.

I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.

I find inspiration for my works of art in my studio and in the squared circle from all sorts of places.

I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.

Being in a kids' show... taught me so much about who I am as an individual, and I learned a lot through the writing and different directors that came in, and I evolved as an actress and human being, and I really created a circle of friends who helped shape me who I am today.

I love making music, but I also love making music that's on the radio. In some circles, that is considered less artistic. And I've always tried to resist those people that say the two can't exist at the same time.

If you stay in the studio for a long period of time, you start to drive yourself around in circles.

Cities must be fun.