Quotes About Creativity

The one that I've always wanted - and I have Scott Rudin in my way blocking it - is 'Blood Meridian,' which Cormac McCarthy has offered to adapt into a screenplay.

I no longer take on everything offered. Instead, I go up for roles I like, things that I would enjoy watching, stories that I want to tell.

The fact is that television, even before the movies, offered the chance to control our work and to get to do it again when we did something right. So television has always been better to writers than any other medium for a long time.

If someone offered me a movie, I will take your script.

I choose not to be in front of the camera. Sometimes I do get offered parts, but I really like just making movies and telling stories.

I have been fortunate enough to be offered characters and projects that challenge me and that are different from the characters that I have played.

Modeling is just one of those things that goes along with acting. When it's offered, it's hard to say no, because it's fun.

I loved the idea of playing this naughty old bag, offering her own explanation. It's my idea of heaven.

My greatest offering is my concept. It isn't my face.

I want to work with Sriram Raghavan, Imtiaz Ali, Karan Johar, and, of course, any other director who is offering a great role to play in a film.

Our first record with Spandau Ballet went to number five - I guess we were offering something different and it appealed.

At the end of the day, it is good music that matters to me, so I'm open to offers.

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.

I don't see myself as a rock star. I don't see myself in that way. I'm interested in work that offers some sort of critical dialogue.

I can't imagine doing anything without being an improviser. I can't imagine trying to write or act or direct without what improvising offers you.

For me, jazz offers so much freedom in the way the music can be interpreted. It's natural to me. It's where I feel most free.

There's not too many offers that come my way about being in a musical.

I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.

I think, always, with a new book, I get nervous. I think mostly it is because work is really important to me, and a book doing well is important because it buys you another one. Not because of the money but if you keep doing interesting work, work that people like, they will want you to do more, and offers that are interesting come in.

Really and truly, everyone just wants to be paid for what they've done, so they can continue to do it, and see your work in the highest production quality. TV offers that.

There were offers to do 'Tum Bin 2' and 'Tum Bin 3' but then it would have been the same kind of franchise films which I think limit an actor.

Bollywood offers great opportunities to actors who are willing to try out different kinds of roles.