Quotes About Creativity

I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.

The word 'hackathon' was born out of 'marathon' for a reason. It's exhausting.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

Maria Bamford is someone who's really inspired me in a big way.

My Maria on stage definitely is a real natural part of who I am, but obviously I can't walk around as that girl. You know what I mean? It's definitely an alter ego, but it is part of who I am, it is who I am, it is my life.

I would love to work with Mario Testino. I respect all the work he has done and is doing.

Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.

I really like Mark Mothersbaugh.

To make a mark, you have to do something different.

Having grown up quite shy and quiet, it's important that I mark out who I am in the world through my work.

The marketing is just as important as the music, almost.

I went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music.

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency.

I'm a marketing genius.

When you don't have money for marketing, you explore alternate ways.

We've established a free marketplace of teacher ideas and donor interests.

I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.

I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way.

Actually, everyone in India does some jugaad in their lives, whether in school, college, marriages, work etc. And most of us have different jugaads for different situations.

I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.

Mars Volta was always about embracing what 'too much' was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an audience for it.

I'd love to work with Bruno Mars and Ryan Tedder.

I'd like to do something with Bruno Mars if we ever got the opportunity.