Quotes About Creativity

It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down.

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.

The longer we work on the show, the more the writers just start surprising you.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.

I worked with Cameron Crowe, and Id love to work with him again.

The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

Dancers work really hard, they don't make any money. It's hard.

There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.

The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.

It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.

It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.

I have the incredibly good fortune of being able to make the majority of the work I produce in the world on my own with no one bothering me. It really comes entirely out of me.

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book.

My work comes first, reasons for it follow.