Quotes About Creativity

Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

There is no room for being creative in today's business... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient.

Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape.

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

Business only has two functions - innovation and marketing.

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.