Quotes About Creativity

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.

I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

When you start thinking as far as what's a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo.

I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.

I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

If the words make sense on paper, and make me feel good, and I feel like it will connect, that's all I'm worried about it.

I depend on good editors and a good director.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

I had all these songs lying around. They had all these woman characters, and I thought the idea of the Woman King would be a good way to tie them all together.

But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

I don't remember if I've been asked seriously to direct a picture. I understand that. I'm very good business for people as an actor and perhaps they'd rather I didn't.

There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.