Quotes About Creativity

My job changes very little because I've found that the more you try to be funny, the less funny you become.

There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.

When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

It felt really good to kind of find my voice and say stuff, and to be funny, hopefully.

I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have made jazz funny.

It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

Yeah, the main goal when I'm writing [movie scripts] is to entertain myself. It's supposed to be funny, but then a funny idea can be turned into something else.

[Baz Luhrmann] is funny, to be quite honest with you.

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm just an old drama queen, really.

Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo?

I like it when very little children think for themselves, because they do not have access to car keys or credit cards or crack pipes, but they have some really funny lines.

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.

It's often hope, hopeful movie making. You're always looking for catchphrases. That's always funny, when you're looking for that future line. "Uh oh, future line. Okay."

It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.

We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy.' If something was horribly offensive and shocking we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'

The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.