Quotes About Creativity

If the night's right and the people are right, of course I want to be out, I want to be socializing. I don't want to be in my studio 24 hours a day for the whole rest of my life.

When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, 'Sci-fi is dead. It's a dead genre. No one wants to see science fiction anymore.' And I had to go and raise the money independently to make that movie.

If I had all the money in the world, I don't think I'd want to be in the studio for longer.

Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.

Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts.

I don't want to only make the movies that studios will greenlight.

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.

Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.

There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon' and then 'Deep Impact.' You know, 'Andromeda Strain' and then 'Outbreak.' Like, all of those things. It's common because basically studios have no imagination in making the decisions.

I've always believed in expanding the definition of what a Marvel Studios movie could be.

We never had a giant library or owned a lot of commercial characters the way most studios did. And since we didn't have a lot of internal resources, we had to find ways to be inventive and resourceful, which I think is a healthy way to run a good business.

Studios are often very nervous of things they don't recognize, by which I mean things that haven't been done before, and therefore, they take a really original idea, and they recognize the originality, and then they try and make it look like something they recognize. So they try to turn it into something far more procedural.

Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

My movies are not messed with by the studios.

Electronic musicians are quite like writers or painters. They are quite isolated in their home studios. We often don't have that the opportunity to collaborate with that many people, like in rock or jazz.

It was really inspiring to be in West London in the late 1980s and early 1990s, especially in Mark Lebon's Crunch Studios, where I met people like Ray Petri, Neneh Cherry, Judy Blame, Nick and Barry Kamen, Zoe Bedeaux, and Venetia Scott.

Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

Getting a movie made is a miracle... because the studios are only interested in making 'The Avengers.'

I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.

It's expensive to get studio space and dancers. My whole first three years, I was sneaking around in the studios and getting kicked out of them. It was kind of depressing.

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.