Quotes About Creativity

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

A lot of my favorite books have been adapted horribly.

I've adapted my own work a couple of times, and I've also given my novels to other people to adapt, and I do find that quite difficult.

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

I really enjoy the challenge of adapting.

I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.

I have creative ADD.

I'm like a child with musical ADD.

I was addicted to playing music.

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

I don't ever go and write music for an album. That's not something I do. I don't go and write music for an audience or a career; I don't do that at all. I write basically all the time. I'm addicted to it.

At the end of a project I get very weird, you know, in my head because I'm not doing it. It's like an addiction. I have to do it.

I have a writing addiction.

I believe in giving actors the freedom to express themselves, and adding more to whatever is written.

Stories often take their own course once you start to write them, especially when you have the benefit of a writers' room and a team of people augmenting and adding to the material.

Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.

When you write as an artist, you just tell a story and people say it addresses issues.

I think I've got some actor's form of ADHD. I just can't do the same thing day in, day out.

I think about a lot of my favorite directors, and I think about their first films, and I have great admiration for the earthiness of those films.

I admire Akira Kurosawa. I have a deep admiration for him and I would love to make films like that.

I admire American ideas.

I admire people who are creative.

If you succeed at all, you find yourself suddenly working with artists whose work you don't just admire but you deeply love.

I would love to write a song with the Everly brothers. But it's probably best not to work with someone you admire: they'll just show up your inadequacies.