Quotes About Creativity

Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

The novels I planned to write were never going to be funny books about Jews. They were going to be country house books. Only later on could I write what I knew I was best at writing about.

Acting was never planned.

I'm a fan of records you get and you listen to them from beginning to finish - records where everything is there for a purpose. There was never any filler on those records - it was all well planned out.

There's never anything planned. I just do what I feel is best for the song at that time.

Roja,' 'Bombay' and 'Dil Se' weren't planned as political films. It was a phase India was going through and these things affected me and found their way into my work.

I have never planned in life. For me the medium is not important - what matters is the role.

That's the fun of television. You can find an actor and they'll inspire you to change and evolve a character in a way you hadn't initially planned on.

People think 'Roots' was planned but it wasn't. I just had a couple of ideas and the name.

It feels dangerous when people say, 'Oh, Sean Baker focuses on marginalised people.' And offensive. As if I'm standing there with my planner thinking, 'OK, where's the next marginalised group I can make a movie about?'

I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them.

I've tried digital planners and fancy planners and date books galore, but my tried and true is actually just a large spiral-bound notebook.

If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.

I think art cannot be planned. The audience is too smart to get the dishonesty or 'too much planning' thing. I am not a legend, but I want to be one. I want to be known as an achiever. There is so much more that I can do.

Musically, I have little ambition. The only real ambition I have is to make music and do music whenever I feel like it, without any real ambition or planning.

It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.

I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

Don't set pen to paper until you know your main characters inside out. Create files detailing their appearances, likes, dislikes, and personal background. You may not use all the information, but it is a crucial step in planning your story.

I'm so happy when someone does something original, and there's no focus group or planning committee. If the cinema doesn't get an injection of that once in a while, we're in trouble.

On a normal novel, I would like to get 2,000 to 2,500 words done in a day; I average 10,000 words a week, and then there's a day for planning. With the historical ones, it's a lot harder because you have to stop and double-check facts.

To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.