Quotes About Creativity

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

I don't particularly fall in love with my own compositions, but some of them are decent.

I'm not particularly good at doodling. I'll doodle the same face over and over again.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.

What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.

I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

The best thing about working on a movie with dancers is that we would get to have dance parties all the time!

When people talk about being a writer, the first words that come to mind are glamour and artistic parties like Charles Dickens used to mix cocktails for.

I've been a DJ since I was about 13, and I started out as a hip-hop DJ. So I was always playing records that would just get people going. I was just doing parties and high school dances and whatever, and then, progressively, I started making my own music, writing little songs here and there, but it was never anything crazy.

I used to throw cooking parties in university. Everyone would come over - sometimes you'd just do a mac and cheese, but if you do that better than everyone else, you can get people to come to you.

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards speaking engagements and literary festivals and dinner parties. That has no interest for me these days. You get to a point where you don't care anymore. At that point, you can start to write.

Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because, well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk.

You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.

I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences.

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

A lot of what 'Funny Girl' is about, for me, is the experience feeling very happy doing a certain thing with a certain group of people. That partly came about because of having really positive experiences writing movies.

The beautiful thing about writing with the person that you love is that when they come up with an idea that is great, it's this dual happiness because that's the partner and that's such a good idea, and I'm proud of you, and then also I'm really excited for the project.

The way I was brought up in improv was that any idea you have is not as good as your partner's idea, so if I see someone else initiating at the same time I am, I just defer to them because I assume their idea is going be better. And hopefully, they're doing the same with me.

It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.

I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried.