Quotes About Creativity

I've never been a method actress; I've never been that person that wants to imagine horrible things happening in your own life in order to exploit them for your emotional being in the movie. I'm just not good at doing that.

I kept listening to albums where I'd hear this very joyful sound - and it was always the glockenspiel. Then I ordered one online, and I figured out how to play it.

I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!

I used to think I was ordinary and just like everybody else, and I am, but there is something about being in a band. It's not for everyone.

'Ordinary Grace' freed me. I don't have to write only Cork O'Connor novels now. I'm liberated. I can write whatever I want to write.

If you really see how many live shows are going on... you can start to do things that are out of the ordinary.

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

When times are tough, people want to escape to somewhere fantastic without having to pay actual escape-to-somewhere-fantastic cash. And offering a couple of hours away from the ordinary is what the movies do best.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'

I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful!

People expect artists to be too normal, I think. I've been around enough of them now to see that they're very extraordinary human beings who behave differently than ordinary human beings. If they weren't as sensitive as they are, they wouldn't be great artists. They are not the same as us. People should just learn to accept that.

I do a film because at that particular moment, I want to make a film. It is my attempt at moving away from the ordinary.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

I think you find amongst ordinary people there are a lot of people that are really talented.

I think what I tend to do is look at all the very ordinary things that are around the house and imagine bringing them to life.

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.

But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

When I was 6 years old, I asked my parents for an organ. I don't have any idea why I wanted an organ.

I would sit at the organ and just start making up things by myself - I was maybe 7 years old, which was too young to even know how to notate music. So I never wrote anything down, but when I'd make things up, I'd memorize them.

I'm not a fan of computerised drums, likewise an organ can lose its appeal within minutes, but there are exceptions.