Quotes About Creativity

There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

Inspiration is a joke, real artists sit down and work

I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.

Art is right reason in the doing of work.

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago.

Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.

It's really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it's great.

After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.

I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years I wouldn't have to - it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.

Just because I'm a younger artist doesn't mean I can't work with a veteran and vice versa.

Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work