Quotes About Creativity

I remember thinking that writing love songs was stupid and cliche, and that my job was to not write love songs, because there are enough of them.

I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

I try my best to not just avoid cliches but to write with some meaning.

Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!

I just like cliches. I like tvtropes.com. It's pretty much my bible.

If you click on MTV, it's the same 10 bands and the same 10 songs, and it gets so old. Kids are looking for something besides what they get on the radio.

I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.

My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you make drawings for me? Will you make a painting for me?' And it really clicked.

I never get to think about myself when I do films. I started in advertising, so I always have to think about what my client and my audience things. If a film doesn't work, it's a big failure.

I've had many ideas come from clients.

Though I have an idea about the climax, it always changes when we start shooting.

It is about getting into the box more, being more clinical, the final pass. It is about really putting that pressure on myself to be someone who creates.

I would not have been interested in doing just a revenge film simply because I have seen so many revenge films right from Clint Eastwood films to Amitabh Bachchan's 'Zanjeer', 'Sholay' and 'Ghayal' and various variants of them.

I usually make films with $2 and a paper clip.

I'm a big believer in the benefit of a home studio. You're sitting there and maybe you don't know the next line. So you go outside for a second, maybe. Make a sandwich. Play with the dog. Or watch an episode of 'The Office,' whatever. And then it clicks, you run back into the room, and you've got it. It's not like your creativity is on the clock.

There's no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being who you are.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

Broadway is a closed ecosystem.

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

I don't believe in closed scripts; I think that they should be open.

See what I do is I book a studio that's closed down and I go by myself. No one's in there, literally just me and the engineer.