Quotes About Creativity

I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints.

I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.

Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way.

While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.

Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.

I think "MythBusters" is a step up from special effects because we not only have to make things look like they work, they actually do have to work. It's more challenging and even transcendental.

I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.

Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they use it, and if not, they ignore it!

What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.

Don't ask a writer what he's working on. It's like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really want to work with guys I really respect and enjoy.