Quotes About Creativity

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

I've always believed that you write to discover what you think. On most subjects, if I'm asked what do I think about them, I'd say I don't know, I'll have to write them down.

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually felt that I was good at. I wasn't a mathematician. Didn't like science, any of those subjects. English and Drama were the two subjects that I loved and felt that I was good at.

I get passionate about certain subjects, and then I'll write a whole play around it.

I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

In school, some of my favorite subjects... I mean, art was my favorite subject. I loved art! I used to go during lunch time to the art room and paint or draw or something.

I want to make serious work that engages with serious subjects. I'm very lucky: I get to more or less make what I want.

The problem is, you see, I've just got so many subjects I want to direct.

I feel I haven't been used to the fullest of my potential. There are so many genres to explore and diverse subjects to work on.

I love to write. I used to be a math teacher. And I like the idea that other people could write about the same subjects, but no one would write it just the way I do. It's very individual: a child could write the same story as somebody else, but it wouldn't come out the same.

If you look at my career... I couldn't possibly have chosen those subjects if I was thinking, 'That's a great commercial idea.' I'm not aware of a great musical where someone has done that.

A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.

My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about this.' But love and heartbreak are some of the most abstract subjects.

I will always face the conundrum that the subjects I'm attracted to aren't essentially commercial.

I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for being the best student in a number of subjects. The pile included several 60-leaved notebooks that I decided to fill with short stories.

I make movies on the subjects that excite me.

Take any movie from 'Khamoshi' to 'Black,' I was always clear about my subjects.

My job in many ways has been to navigate interesting routes around subjects people think are dull.

I do like to write about dark subjects.