Quotes About Creativity

So what did influence 'Bird Box?' Well, I've had a crush on Medusa since about 1985. Maybe the book is an ode to her.

Believe me, when I do a story - if you read 'Batman: Odyssey,' I never do something without there being a reason. There's always a reason, and you will find out in the story. I'm looking to entertain you.

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.

In terms of theater, I would love to go back to do theater. If I could find something for me to do that fits in with the 'Psych' off-season, I'm game. I would like to do theater where I get to act and dance.

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.

Sometimes I'm convinced that one day I'm going to draw the cartoon that offends everyone, and that'll be the end.

You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.

You can only make the best thing you can make, and if it offends purists, or angers certain critics, you can only have done your best.

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

My whole life, I was thinking of names for kids, and I had a couple of kind of different names. I just didn't want him to be one of the crowd, with a - no offense to people with these names, but I don't want him to be a Bob, Dave, Harry, Larry.

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

My imam at the Central Mosque said there was no problem with making music. In fact, he encouraged me - he said if the songs are moral, not offensive, then go ahead.

It's great fun to have the license to say damn near anything you want, short of being offensive.

I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.

The cinema should offer new images, create new memories.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

I was depressed about the roles that were on offer, so I had to make my own stories.

If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.

I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.