Quotes About Creativity

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

I just like magical, fantastical stuff. I don't really see it as surreal when I'm writing. It's just, I write, and then I have an idea, and usually, they're quite odd.

I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal.

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.

Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

If there's one thing that television doesn't really do, and has never really done, is to tell a surreal story.

It bothers me when people say 'shock comic' or 'gross-out' because that was only one type of comedy I did. There was prank comedy. Man-on-the-street-reaction comedy. Visually surreal comedy. But you do something shocking, and that becomes your label.

My first book is really comparable to what I do now, where it's pretty surreal and strange at moments, but that being my first book - I wrote that when I was 22; it came out when I was 24 - and it was just really overwritten. I just didn't trust myself as a writer to say something once.

A lot of TV can be linear and cinematic and formulaic. What's to say that people can't be creative and surreal - and push boundaries? You can look at a piece of art and not necessarily know what it means or what the artist intended by it. It's the effect it has on you.

I would say that my music is surreal, it's inspired by dreams, and it's inspired by heartbreak.

When Prince is into what you're doing, it's just surreal.

I love surrealism.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

The type of work I do, which is often called 'Pop Surrealism,' is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art.

Todd Solondz is a film maker I've always loved because of how he balances darkness, humour and surrealism in his films.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

The respect for a musical score must come from the director... If the director has no power and has to surrender to budgetary constraints, this is where we have the problem.

It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of what I may be experiencing in my life spiritually. It is really hard in the face of people who don't get it, but what do you do?