Quotes About Creativity

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

Writing is my escapism.

I'm never trying to make something esoteric; it just happens.

I know the music I hear and what I want. But sometimes I have to let that go and not try to be so esoteric.

To me, having 'material' for an essay means not only having something to write about but also having something interesting and original to say about whatever that might be.

When I can find a story that explores something that I don't know what I think, I've got a play. If I knew the answer, I would write a speech or an essay.

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

I don't believe in writing for goals, or else I'd write essays.

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

All of my characters, I feel, have some essence of who I am in them.

The essence of my way of doing business is to not accept the traditional way things are done.

When lines are great, they're easy to do. You just find the essence of it, and you do it.

Busking is the essence of what I do. It's made everything possible.

I feel electronica is spoiling the essence of music.

We always start with the music even though people assume that the lyrics are the essence.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

I essentially write for myself.

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

Sometimes I can really agonize over a creative project and forget that it's essentially professional play, you know?