Quotes About Creativity

Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you get from the middle of the road. I don't know what kind of magic my mojo is working, but it's working.

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.

You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.

It's a lucky life to be a playwright.

Be ambitious. The great actor, director and playwright Ann Jellicoe commissioned writers like Howard Barker and David Edgar, and put on magnificent, large-scale plays in Dorset that involved the whole community.

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.

A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

I seem to belong to a boom moment of playwrights, and I'm always curious about how we all got here and what comes next.

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

Is the American theatre allowing itself to become irrelevant? The problem isn't that playwrights aren't being paid enough. It's that theatres all over America are looking towards New York to tell them what new plays to do.

When I was 16, I created this online platform for female artists. I messaged women who I loved; that's how I got work and connected with people. You don't need to plead for entry into a system that doesn't want you anyway.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don't like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do.

Nothing is more pleasant for me than to be on location in the country that I love, in any of our western landscapes, being out there with a camp outfit and a film company.

DJing is really, really pleasant. It's like having people over and making hors d'oeuvres.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

I can't help other people's frustrations. I don't owe people anything. If people would like to come to my concerts, I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that, too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.