Quotes About Creativity

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

There are so many books and movies I like I never mention specific ones.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

I love animated movies in general. I like making them.

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.

I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

Somebody once said that Hollywood is based on a lot of producers deliberately making bad movies, and every now and then somebody gets lucky.

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

I have great people surrounding me and helping me out. I'm totally in love with directing movies and I hope to do more of it.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.