Quotes About Creativity

Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance. Whether it's music or poetry or hosting, people want you to be something else: they want you to be packaged in a certain way.

Whatever you do, whatever you come up with, whatever you decide on, you can go with it, and if the director or the execs, they like it, then you'll stick with it. That's a good thing, as opposed to having something that's already written.

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.

I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it's really true.

If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.

'City of God' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' are both films that I really like, but they are stylistically the opposite of what I wanted to do.

Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up.

Growing up, a lot of people wore baggy stuff. I went in the opposite direction. Just trying to be different.

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.

People always ask me: Is it the music? Is it the masks? No, it's all of it. It's Slipknot. It's the optics, it's the masks, it's the music, it's the performance, it's the records.

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism.

When you work with filmmakers, and it's their first film, there's an exuberance and optimism, which is quite... There's no room for being jaded. Thinking that you know it all.

My son Ishaan's passion for movies and his exposure to world cinema infuses me with optimism.

If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.

I find color optimistic and enthusiastic, and I adore it.