Quotes About Creativity

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

You have nothing to offer if you're just some machine actress.

People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.

What I have to offer as a writer/director is the stuff with the feeling in it.

I love 'To Kill A Mockingbird' - it seems to offer up new layers every time you read it. I also love Kate Atkinson's 'Behind The Scenes At The Museum' - that's the book that started me writing.

There's a love that I want to continue to offer people. And, I hope I can offer people that love through the art.

I have more to offer than music that is automatically dance.

Some people become artists for whatever reasons. Some of it's frivolous. And I don't think there should be any shame on that, but I think there comes a point in life where you want to offer more.

I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to what the characters can offer and what I can bring to them and then bring a being to life.

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

'The House Of Tomorrow' offered such a fantastic script. I couldn't believe that script - it was just so original and unique.

It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, 'Walt Disney.' I wanted to make films. But I wasn't offered a camera. I was offered language. So I started telling stories in the theatre and then in my novels.

In America, I am brown; I'm 'of colour', so I would be offered Latin roles, and I've fought against that. I don't want to be put in a category, to be just offered the same sort of thing. For me, it's all about different roles, telling the stories of the great writers.

I'm bored. I'm bored with the kind of parts I get offered. I can do more.

I am not bothered about if my role in a film is small or big. Because if the character I am offered is sensible, I would do it even if it is small.

I chose to continue independent because, at the time I was being offered deals, it wasn't fitting into what I'd imagined. I decided to take a gamble on myself and see what happens.