Quotes About Creativity

I co-wrote and produced 'Sticky Fingers' with Catlin Adams, who directed it. I learned a lot writing and producing with Cat. I spent as much time as I could in the cutting room with her. All the producing experience that I had helped.

Sometimes you get ensnared by an idea, and it's what I call 'the sticky burr': You go hiking, and a burr sticks to you, and that's the film you're going to make.

I started out as a novelist, and I think novels have gotten a little stiff, a little repetitive, and the energy in comics was much more appealing.

I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way.

Having fun is fantastic, and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work, or else it's going to feel stiff.

You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.

Well sometimes, culture can stifle talent, so you have to be careful.

You can't let regret stifle your creativity.

Lil Uzi and I gave Philly different sounds by stepping outside of the box and not sticking to the stigma.

My thing is to get people out of the stigma of what a reggae artist should be like.

It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

Tarantino's 'Django' amused me very much. It is as made by an adult that was still a child.

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.

I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.

I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.

Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.

I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself.

Muse. Mu-se. It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you. And I don't think it's necessarily a man 'taking' from a woman. It can go both ways, both can stimulate, excite.

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.