Quotes About Creativity

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

I don't think it matters what the frequency is of me writing or directing a movie. It doesn't really matter to anybody else. I'm just trying to put good things out there.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

I don't think good films have messages.

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

I watch many, many, many independent films every year that you see once in a film festival and they're never heard of ever again. Many of them are very, very good.

50 Words of Snow just didn't seem to have the complications that quite a lot of albums have. It felt to me like it had this very good flow of energy.

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good

If it's good art, it's good.

There's nothing more important than a good story.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful.

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

You want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise.