Quotes About Creativity

I feel like doing theatre helps my on-camera work and my on-camera work kind of helps my theatre work. So I love to be able to bounce through the mediums.

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

I really do like seeing other people perform my music. It's one of the most rewarding things for me, so it's worth the extra work.

I fell in love with Nashville. I got lots of work.

There's a sense of knowing when to stop and take a break from things, to step back from the work you're making, and of changing things up to keep them interesting for yourself.

What's important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work.

Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.

I've discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue – of being worried, secretly afraid, even convinced that I'm on the wrong track.

Moving to the country has been incredibly good for my work, for my sense of perspective.

My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.

You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.

I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.

Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.

There are so many young talented actors today whose work I respect and admire - Ryan Gosling is probably primary among them. I take inspiration from so many amazing actors.

I can't imagine saying the same joke for three hours. I don't know how that would work.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as many as five at a time.

I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.

Some of my work is very instinctive, some of my favourite things I've ever done are just two minute sketches, nothing is better when you get it like that so quick, then other work takes months.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.