Quotes About Creativity

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.

The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about the future.

I want to be remembered as an artist who was really passionate about his work. And as an inspiration. I do what I do to inspire people.

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.

As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be all the same. The more this can be done with comfort, the more variety my work has had.

For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work.

I believe I am a better director than actor. I enjoy acting if the part is right. Directing comes very naturally to me. I enjoy it. I am very confident in my work.

The Bottom Line: If people don't LOVE our work, we will not be able to sell what we make.

I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.

Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

I want to work with Justin Timberlake.

I try to take the pain and find a way to use it in my work; I find that it makes the work deeper.

Nicola Tesla didn't say, 'I have to make wireless electricity!' The brain does not work that way.

I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.

I prefer to work with first-time directors.