Quotes About Creativity

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.

It's our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That's what at the end of the day defines us.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

I build an entire fort out of pillows. I need at least four pillows. I need on each side, I need one normal usage pillow for the back of my head, and I need another pillow just in case.

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

At USC, when I studied film scoring my first year, one of my first friends that I met was Ryan Coogler. He was in the directing program at USC. He became one of my best friends at school.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

I got in trouble in film school at USC because one of my Super-8 movies there, in the first semester, involved a snowmobile chase scene. I made an action scene, and they were like, 'That wasn't what you were supposed to be doing.'

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

We use art to combat the dark side of capitalism.

I don't use a hat as a prop. I use it as a part of me.

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

My music is like a diary. I use every experience.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I'd use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens.