Quotes About Creativity

On 'Think Like a Man,' they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.

I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.

I think one of the main reasons I write is to do better than ranting. The ranting is the opinion, and the writing is not the opinion. I always say that people's opinions are the worst things about them. The words demand a dignity.

I do music to tell people my thoughts and opinions about life, emotions, politics, everything.

A lot of people have ideas and opinions on what Avenged Sevenfold should be or what we should do, and I think our No. 1 rule is to always make sure we never listen to any of that and to always do what we believe.

I try to ignore people's opinions about my music - you don't want to hold yourself back because of that stuff.

I've tried in the past to blog about ghostwriting and have failed. I have a lot of opinions on the whole issue, and I'm constantly censoring myself to make sure I don't just sound like a bitter writer.

It would take some encouragement for me to accept other people's opinions on how I should present my work because my work means a lot to me.

The arts were like, there's no opponent. It's just yourself. I'm not saying they don't make the arts a competition with awards and all that, but that's outside the work itself.

Our objective is always to do something that hasn't been done before, but the opponent has a lot of say over how that works out.

Having new opponents re-energises us as talent, as we're not having to make new out of something that's been the same every week.

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

I just love being able to create and make things that inspire and that make people laugh, and my motivation to keep going is to make more opportunities to do that.

We took a very interesting journey from being really extreme art house filmmakers. But we find that working in commercial filmmaking and creating a brand on that high level affords us a lot of interesting opportunities.

An entrepreneurial mind is always looking for new opportunities.

I've never wanted to play the lead role; I make the most of whatever opportunities come my way.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

After doing 'Doctor Who,' I'm open-minded to doing more acting. Part of the reason you do a show like this is because it creates other opportunities you haven't had before.

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.

Makeup is malleable and mercurial: The biggest joy I have every day is the opportunity to create, to play, and to invent with something I've loved forever.

I think all children love art, but not all get the opportunity to do it.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal.