Quotes About Creativity

Now I'm just loving the world of Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle so much. I really wouldn't want to go back into the world of Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling - where would the fun and adventure be in that?

You never make movies for Oscars.

I built my work from within instead of satisfying a demand for sexualised and ostentatious clothing.

I've experienced a great deal of, you know, ostracism from the making of films.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don't want to fall into that.

I want to continue working in Mexico, but I'd also like to work in other countries eventually, too. Working behind the camera is interesting for me, too.

The single most eye-opening experience for me and what propelled me to become a filmmaker was that I started to see films from other countries.

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.

I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.

Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.

Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

The other kids wanted to play Destiny's Child, but I wanted Anita O'Day.

I was always the kid down the street who got the other kids to put on a show. But it was only when I was 19, and discovered ballet and contemporary dance, that I got interested in the fact that you could have a whole evening of dance - rather than just waiting for the dancers in a musical.

When all the other kids were playing sports after school, I wanted to sing and dance and act.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

I would never shop from the Internet or a catalogue; otherwise, how am I going to educate my eye? I just love going out and searching for new things.

I have to have a creative role; otherwise, I simply wouldn't come into work.

I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.