Quotes About Creativity

I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.

Learning how to do some of the technical work on the film can be helpful too and allows you to start the film on your own. However, if you are passionate about an idea, just begin.

I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out.

My goal is to create a book where the entire book-text, pictures, shape of book-work together to create the theme. The placement of images and text on the page is crucial for me.

I want to do movies that mean something, that make people laugh and cry great movies, period-piece movies and work with the best people out there, who bring the best out of me.

Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.

With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.

In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story or an essay (though I don't write many of the latter).

I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.

People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story.

It's not fair to use movies that weren't creatively successful as a reason why something won't work.

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.