Quotes About Creativity

Anyone can write your own life story.

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

I think that fashion, for a long time, has been in a prison. Without freedom. I think that without freedom, with rules, it's impossible to create a new story.

I started in documentaries, and that was a great help to me with improvisation, because with documentaries, you're handed a big lump of footage, and you have to shape it and make it into a story - which I love doing.

I'm always looking for a story.

You can get people to follow very intricate pathways of musical information, but it feels like a nursery rhyme or a children's story.

I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.

There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mind of a 'bad man.' It was fun.

The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story and art all by yourself.

Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down.

If you can keep something very personal, like a song, like a color, like a story, deep in your heart, then nobody can destroy that. Nobody can destroy your imagination; nobody can destroy your love.

I always like to tell a story.

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything.

You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

I don't storyboard like some. I mean, all directors are different. I plan meticulously - really meticulously.

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move.

I don't storyboard, and I don't really shot list. I let the shots be determined by how the actors and I figure out the blocking in a scene, and then from there, we cover it.

In the Indian system of filmmaking, you don't plan well in advance, stick to a storyboard, or deliver only the scripted lines.

Interestingly enough, the storyboard... that I did for 'Psycho' went precisely as I laid it up, and there was no change on that. And frankly, I myself at that point didn't even really understand the impact that some of these things would have.

We storyboard a lot, but I love when we are just going in there and just, almost on the fly, making stuff and discovering moments. It's just fantastic, where you can really go in there and be creative and everything.

I'm not at my house storyboarding, and telling them they need to move from A to B, 'Move here and then there.' Never, ever! I used to storyboard when I was much less experienced.