Quotes About Creativity

To walk into a studio, for me, is just like walking onto a beach or something.

When I directed my first short - 'American Virgin' - I had no idea if I could actually do it. Like, I might just get onto set, have everyone look at me and just completely freeze and have no idea what to do. But pretty much the opposite of that happened. I was like a fish diving into the sea.

There was a kind of infiniteness to fiction that I found sort of... disconcerting. I remember having these really panicky thoughts, like, 'I can make this person say anything. I could make him do anything! I could put a jetpack onto his back and shoot him into space!' I don't like this feeling of having no rules.

Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate for years and keep writing about it even better than you did then.

As an artist, you want as many people as possible to see your work with no interference. And usually, I've gone onto fringe channels: BBC Two, HBO, Channel 4.

As a kid, I always loved Mel Brooks' stuff - 'The 2,000 Year Old Man' record was something my dad put me onto.

I loved music before I stumbled onto acting.

I think, in general, as a writer, you can't really hide your values. They're always going to fall out onto the page, and I tend to trust that I don't have to force my ideals into the expression of what's going to happen naturally.

I always liked the idea that you can put something in you onto a canvas or a piece of paper and have it exist there and not inside you. It's a way to control things.

You might not have the biggest budget or resources or cast, but if you have a great story, people will latch onto it.

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

When we walk onto that stage I'm not feeling like I'm ruled by any other band.

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it's all hands on deck. An artist that's fiddle-faddling in opaque, gossamer gestures - I mean it's fine to do that, totally fine, but there's no time left. We don't have the luxury of time anymore.

My brain is open.

I listen to different artists. I open my mind to different artists.

I feel the dams of emotions open up more easily when one is acting.

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

Only an idiot would open an exhibition saying, 'Look at my awesome work.'

Hip hop fans are obsessed, and they're geeks about hip hop. Comic book fans are also geeks, and when you can meld the two, then you open the world up to, I think, communities that will just take to each other.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: 'If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?'

I want to open a restaurant.

I've always found myself to be most free and creatively open when I'm on my own.

I'm very open to making films anywhere in the world.