Quotes About Creativity

When I was composing for 'The Villain,' I looked at it as a fan and came up with tunes accordingly.

I've really enjoyed working with Brody King and PCO, and offering a different side of 'The Villain' to the audience.

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

'Dragon Ball''s villains were easy to draw: Piccolo, Freeza, Majin Boo.

It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

I have played 50 different kinds of fathers and villains. Only mediocre actors play the part the same way.

That's the thing about writing for a lot of the villains is that, as a writer, you kind of have to put the best part of your own personality aside and instead focus on whatever little strange quirks you may have in your personality.

I think the best collaborations in comics come from a lot of talks with the artists where you are finding out what they want to draw, what kind of villains they want to do.

I love everybody in Gotham. Gotham suits me really well. I'll write anything from 'Nightwing' to 'Batgirl' and any of the villains.

Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87.

I've done 20 takes of a Vine before it goes out.

Even something as stupid as Vine videos makes you feel like you're making things on your own.

If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.

Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.

I just really post what I'm feeling, especially when it comes to Vine and music. For a long time, I just kind of posted six-second original thoughts, and people really gravitated towards that.

My first Vine I really just posted out of spontaneity.

I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, 'I'm a lost boy from Neverland.' I decided to post it to Vine, and it got the biggest reaction I'd ever gotten. People wanted to hear more, and I had to explain it wasn't a song.

I'm spending way too much time test running my Vine videos. I'll go into a room and close the door and be in there for an hour workshopping a Vine video that I never even post. So that's probably a huge time suck.

I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all.

I spend 6 hours filming a Vine.

I got into a competition with my brother over who could make better Vine videos.

TikTok is the app that Vine should have been.

Vine is great because none of us have time to really see all the talent that's out there. If you can make someone laugh in six seconds, you can see there's more to this person. Vine lends itself to that. It allows you to be exposed to new people and you get it right away.

The early days, when Vine was so special and innovative - I would wake up and immediately want to make videos. I loved it.