Quotes About Creativity

I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without other stuff happening.

Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be good enough.

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was no safety net.

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

I think all good art is outsider art.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

My good friend Josh Bibby happens to be a pro skier and has used my music in 2 international ski films.

I'm a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun.

There are a lot of good actors, and writers out there.

Good actors need better projects, and these days there aren't enough going round.

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.