Quotes About Creativity

I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

You have to go through a lot of crap to get to a good idea.

They defy gravity, as good books should.

My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be very good at drawing it!

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.

Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.

Don't let any of your good habits get boring.

Sometimes the roles you're being offered, leads in films aren't good enough. Actually it's you're better going and doing a radio play or a decent TV.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore must be struck from the text.

I'm not in any way selling out by having a record that's good enough for radio.

The reason that I'm considered to be prolific is just because I'm a good listener. It literally is me taking dictation when I write. I'm listening and typing as fast as I'm hearing the words.

One nice thing about telling a clean joke is there's a good chance no one's heard it before.

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know.

Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.

Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

The 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.