Quotes About Creativity

My parents have both done some music stuff. My family was very artist-friendly, so that was encouraging.

While Anurag Kashyap is a very chilled out guy and let his actors pitch in with their ideas, Kamal Haasan is an encyclopedia in himself. Merely listening to him enriches one so much.

At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art.

At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.

The fact is some people really love my work, some people not so much, but at the end of the day, I don't want anybody coming out of the movie thinking about me.

I feel like, at the end of the day, I always would try to make music that I wanted to listen to: stuff that I liked and wanted to hear.

My aspiration isn't to be famous; it's to design clothes. If that gets me attention at the end of the day, cool.

You can do all of the world-building you want; at the end of the day, what's important is the heart and the drive of the story and the heart and the drive of the characters.

I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.

I'm not always the first person to run out and see something I'm in. I don't know; for me, that's not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to act. I don't really think about the end result. I don't feel like I have to see it - for me, it already happened.

Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

I think that's the key to any artistic endeavor: You want it to feel fresh and not have people look at it like it's re-creation of something else unless it's done in a really strong way.

For me, I have trouble working with people just because I sort of have trust issues when it comes to creative endeavors.

Good films will happen only if there are people to produce good films and there are people to encourage the endeavour.

I've lived on my own since 17, and when I found I wasn't working all the time, I ended up starting a small theatre company called Red One Theatre.

I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning.

I may not have written the stories that I've written if I hadn't ended up in Niverville. I don't know; I don't know. How can you know?

Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

I'm always changing my work, as there are endless ways to think about food.

My wishlist of directors, who I want to work with is endless. I want to work with Vishal Bhardwaj, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar and many more.

I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

As far as comedy goes, I'm endlessly inspired by Jo Firestone.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.