Quotes About Creativity

I just don't want to make the same old movies. I'm not interested in it. Directing's hard. It takes up a lot of your life, and I'm not that interested in making the same old film.

I really like the grittiness of early Amon Tobin - I'm a huge fan of his old music, and I tried to borrow from it, not emulate it. I don't love my own original work.

I don't use old music.

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.

I don't really listen to my old music.

My opinion of covers is that unless you're going to change and take a cover in a new direction, it's gonna get put up against the old one, and you're gonna lose. It's like, which would you rather listen to? The Righteous Brothers' 'Loving Feeling' or Hall and Oates' 'Loving Feeling?'

Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

If Hollywood is going to keep going, the writers need to be creatively fulfilled by creating their own things. We need to generate new ideas, so we're not always cannibalizing old ones.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you can't miss with that.

I come from an old school of thought where there are musicians on stage, in the house, sitting and jamming to create things. I cannot make music without live instruments. It just doesn't feel right.

To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.

I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't like to do old stuff. So I do very, very little of it.

I was thinking about working with Lady Gaga, not 'Born This Way' but more her old stuff that she did with RedOne from her first album. I think that would be really fun - a cool combination.

I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.

One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don't think anyone would like it.

I find it incredibly annoying to just go out and sing the old stuff and write songs that sound like the old stuff.

I kind of live by this old thing that time will tell whether people are going to write about this or that; all we can do is be who we are and make records we love, and everything else will sort itself out.

I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.