Quotes About Creativity

Content is the meaningful substance of the work.

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity.

Ive always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

It's so great to work with people you know and love and trust, but also open up the world.

When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.

I always like to borrow bits and pieces of things. There's a line between jumping on something that's happening and incorporating bits and pieces of it into my work.

I can't wait to wake up in the morning and listen to music in order to try to find something to work with.

It's hard enough to get things to work in a musical way.

I feel like all the artists that I really love, they've had a strong contingent of people who really hate their work as well.

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it.

I want technology to work for me, and my readers. People get confused that technology comes first. The ideas come first. You need to use the medium.

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.

I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

I've been very lucky to work with many amazing animators and directors who can interpret and extend the music I make. When it's done well, it can create extra meaning and new context for the song.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.