Quotes About Creativity

I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.

It's no sin to tell a good story.

If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea.

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always on the same turf. I don't have those limitations.

I just don't feel good if I'm repeating myself.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

The script comes first. If that isn't good enough, you know it's gonna be a long ride.

Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.

It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.

As an actor and a director, I always let my actors go... assuming they have good ideas.

It's easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell.

If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.

I think that's in my case everything I do takes so long because I don't have one direction. I'm just doing what I feel at the moment. It would probably be good, though, to have some direction.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn't mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.

You can talk good ideas out of existence.

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas.