Quotes About Creativity

The avant-garde feel important, but they hardly understand what they're doing.

We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.

In London, I did feel a pressure to be more avant-garde than I wanted.

When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie.

I'm just making 'Threadworlds' out of the things I love and that I'm passionate about learning. When we created 'Avatar,' Michael DiMartino and I did the same thing.

It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.

I look to films to learn and to see different avenues that you can take in growing up.

On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing.

I think there's no way of avoiding the South African or African influence from coming into my music, just because I spent 19 years of my life there. Being a kid, my early musical experiences were there.

Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality. I might have a Scotch to keep me going, but I like to be as awake and as alert as possible.

I would love to have a song that I wrote by myself to win a 'Song of the Year' award.

I wish there was an autotune for acting. That would make everyone win the best acting award immediately.

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

I think I worked way harder for the female directors than the male ones. There's nothing like women challenging each other to really make you do your best.

I often look at a lot of Doctor Who stuff that's about now, which no one has approached me about.

'Doctor Who' rewrites your brain because at first when you watch it, you think, 'That doesn't make sense.'

Having made other shows, the thing with 'Doctor Who' is that you're doing everything, all at once.

There's an Armed Forces Haggadah and an Alcoholics Anonymous Haggadah and an LGBT Haggadah. Some people make a new Haggadah every year. It's a real living document... They're just constantly made throughout time.

I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.

I never wanted to do a documentary or write a book.

People never read my books for the quality of the documentary value.

I would love to direct a documentary film if any good subject comes my way.

I can't lie: We have made some dogs over the years. Every album we did wasn't great, you know.

I used to love playing paper dolls with my mother - she would cut them out and I would dress the dolls.