Quotes About Creativity

People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.

Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much.

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

There are seven notes - Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni no one is original in the world. We have to play around the notes and make our own stuff.

If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.

I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original.

I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.

But the Go-Go's are a very original, kind of organic thing.

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

Because it was the original 4 guys, and the dynamic of those 4 guys interacting together that had the power.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

My fans are like no other. Completely original people.

I was at Disney for about four years, so I made good friends there. It was a time of not a lot of creativity. It was the end of the first great era, with a few of the original animators. They called them the Nine Old Men. I learned a lot from them, but it wasn't going to be a future home for me.