Quotes About Creativity

I think, for me, a way to really come up with new ideas and come up with new ways of writing music is to create a unique sound palette or soundscape for all the films I'm working on.

You have to engage with the current palette of the world, and what that sounds like.

Instinct is still important, but now I can easily identify problems like cliches and mixed metaphors, and I have a broader palette to work off of.

When I was eight, my pals and I went up to my bedroom, put on our party frocks and mimed to ABBA records using broom handles as microphones.

'What time is it,' you ask? According to 16 of my dearest writing pals, it's always time for a wonderful romance!

I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.

I haven't written a brochure yet. It's killing me. I know I have a brochure or pamphlet in me yet.

I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.

That's the beauty of creative industry that when one thing does not pan out, you have other things to do.

I'd love to make a film like 'Pan's Labyrinth.'

I would like to be part of sensible cinema, irrespective of whether it is a commercial or niche film, but it doesn't always pan out like that.

When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama.

I would experiment with porridge - make porridge pancakes, fry porridge - and so friends started calling me 'Porridge.' But I got to feel that I was becoming a character, a work of fiction, in a sense.

From the 'get go', we were working within the limitations of the pandemic. The idea was to work around the situation, and that led us to 'Joji.'

You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

My brain subconsciously limits itself to panel compositions that my hand can actually draw.

I grew up really into comic books, and I actually thought I was going to be a comic-book artist. That was my ambition before I realized I couldn't keep characters looking the same from panel to panel.

I got the idea for my novel 'Lord of Light' when I cut myself shaving just before I was to go on a panel at a convention. I had to go out there with this big gash in my face. I remember that I thought, 'I wish I could change bodies.'

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

When I start a new novel and find myself diverted by domestic activities, many of which I genuinely enjoy, I panic that I will never write another word.

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

When I first started writing, I did mostly short fiction, and I'd work on a short story and get near to being done and have no idea what I'd work on next, and then I'd panic.