Quotes About Creativity

I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.

I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.

Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.

I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.

I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.

I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.

The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.

I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.