Quotes About Creativity

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.

People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.

I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.

We should be creative, and we should accommodate the needs of every community to open up the democratic process. We should make it easy and accessible for every citizen to participate.

When I started doing projects for TV, I made sure to participate in the brainstorming sessions.

I don't think I would participate in 'Eurovision,' but I would love to write a song for it. But it would have to be for Norway, obviously. Do it for my country.

As an adult I wasn't dying to participate in sci-fi projects.

It's interesting when women direct. The work is better. They ask more people to participate.

I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.

Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.

The greatest filmmakers are not the ones who put everything in; they're the ones who can figure things to leave out, and in doing so, invite your participation.

A good director is not an expert in anything in particular. A good director just knows a little bit about everything.

They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.

I don't write for a particular audience.

The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.

When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an animator.

Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.

Fashion is a very particular world, as you know.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.