Quotes About Creativity

The biggest was me running Lionhead at its peak. That was about 305 people. I'd say that was, for me as a creative, one of the most hellish times of my life. Normally running a team is like herding cats. This was like herding the entire African plains.

I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

I don't really plan too much ahead when I write, because otherwise, I get kind of bored.

I really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do.

I did not plan to make the Cube.

You can't plan success with a creative field. So I enjoy it while it's here, and I know it won't be forever. Maybe one day I'll have to go back to flipping burgers, but for now I'm going to enjoy the cool things.

One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.

I come from the corporate world, where everyone has a five-year plan, but performing arts doesn't work that way; you just kinda do the best job you can with the gig you've got.

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

I don't want to plan my career. That would be a business plan. Filmmaking is not a business plan.

I don't plan massively in advance.

I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.

Pacing is not the sort of thing you can plan out beforehand, but you're always aware of it as you write, because you need to make constant decisions.

I'm happy to have a job. I play a little, write a little, perform some. It's not like it's an engineered, well-manufactured plan or anything. I just do what I do.

I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them.

I wanted to write about Jews in Montana, so I went there by plane and bus, only to discover that there are no Jews in Montana. It didn't deter me.

To this day, I still travel with scores. Every time I'm on a plane - it could be Stravinsky or Mozart or Ravel.

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.'

I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.