Quotes About Creativity

In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse, and so I just followed that intuition.

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

When you're so used to operating the camera, it's an extension of your eye and your heart and your head.

I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers.

In a funny way, the illness spurred me on. I thought to myself, 'I've got to get through this operation to make a blues album.'

Arranging an official dinner in an embassy is a little like writing a script for a play. The prolog is the guest list, often the most difficult part of the whole creative operation.

I remember how my world expanded in amazing fashion by that magical operation of translating words into images, and images into stories.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

If I have a certain opinion, I try to incorporate that into my work.

My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

If you ask my opinion, I don't look at a film according to its box office collection.

In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful.

When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.

In my opinion, sadly, the music industry doesn't get its due in Bollywood.

Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.

All I can tell you is, all of the good product you got from E-40 with all the good product you got from Too $hort - it's almost impossible for us to make a terrible album together. We're both opinionated, so I damn sure am not co-signing a song that I think is wack.

If I can feel that actual people made the thing, and that they have deeply felt opinions about it, and care about this, and don't care about that and so on and so on - then I think it falls into the 'independent' file.

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms. Our decision-making is better when we draw on the collective knowledge and unvarnished opinions of the group.

I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?

At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music 'cause it's my music. If you don't like it, don't click on it, don't download it.