Quotes About Creativity

It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing.

I've always sort of felt that, for me, everything's so much more about the music than the accolades.

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

Every accomplishment I've had is from the Groundlings.

According to me, art is honest and free.

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

I just became accustomed to being all the members of the band. That was something that was really exciting to me.

The goal, and the ultimate achievement, is to make people feel as well as think.

I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.

And I only really like to play the acoustic guitar.

All the songs I've written, if they don't sound good on acoustic guitar, they won't sound good at 11.

One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas.

I try to picture my books being acted out.

I am extremely proud of the fact that I have acted in art films.

I was always toying with the idea of acting.

Every director should take an acting class.

I wasn't very good in my serious acting class. Sometimes people took our class so seriously, so I used to, sort of, make fun of people after class. And so a friend of mine said, 'Why don't you do the comedy thing.' That's how it all worked out.

I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.

I have an active imagination.

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

The most exciting thing I've seen is directors not only being open to actors coming in the room with different abilities but actively looking at ways that the story can be enlarged with disabled actors.

Art is activism.