Quotes About Creativity

I admire 'Urinetown.'

There is no other artist who I admire and love as much as I love Bjork.

I admire many actors, including Amitabh Bacchhan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Irfan Khan, and many more.

The actors I admire always have something to say, or a level of poetry, belief, activism or intelligence about what they do or how they feel.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.

It feels good to be able to work with a director and actors I've admired.

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

I admit I do develop characters from little parts of things I've seen others do.

A lot of girls come to our shows, and a lot of them are freaking adorable and want to learn how to play guitar.

I adore Toni Morrison. I think we would all be better writers if we read more of her.

I adore film, and I adore music.

I have had a lot of dreams come true as a writer... I've gotten to work with artists I adored as a reader; I've gotten to write characters that changed my life as a kid.

Each success gives me the adrenaline to move to another film.

I can see how a person could get addicted to the adrenaline of moviemaking.

Writing good ads is easy when you have something to say.

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

Children will often write, 'We love your books because there are no adults in them.'

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

You can find advantages to being small.

There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.

The spirit of pickling is one of adventure and fun.

I enjoy making all kinds of films. I love action films, war films, period films, adventure films.