Quotes About Creativity

I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration.

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.

What better reward than to see others excited by your work?

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

I think there are some things in music that work and don't work. That's learned from counterpoint and rhythm and theory, and they don't work if you don't want them to work.

I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.

When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.

I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

To me, making records isn't work.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.

To be in Brazil and see the work of Os Gêmeos or to be in England and see what Banksy is doing is pretty fascinating to me.

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

Guillermo del Toro. He's in his pure artist's stroke. He's just hitting it out of the park. I would go anywhere to work with him. He's a real artist.

I'd love to work across all three fields - theatre, film and TV.

My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.

If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.

I'm talkin' about you. Stop pretending you're normal. You're insane. Make that work for you.