Quotes About Creativity

There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.

Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.

I blush to think of her beholding my work," Verl confessed. So do we," Newel assured him.

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

A lot of it is "how do you work with people". How do you get people to work with you and do wonderful things.

If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.

[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what's best in it and make it work. That's what it was like.

Bill Prady and Chuck Lorre, the guys who run that show [Big Bang Theory], are really funny and really smart, and the cast is fantastic to work with.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from bringing their ideas to a project.

I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my work.

I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.

do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

Well, I always talk about how I used to work at an insane asylum and stuff, which is true, but to be honest, I just make crap up more than anything else.

Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.

I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work.

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

I've been really lucky as far as the caliber of musicians I've been able to work with each time.

There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.