Quotes About Creativity

I didn't know how to write comics. I had to teach myself.

Comics writing is for your artist. It's not for the general reader; it's for the artist. So I love writing scripts for artists.

I knew I wanted to do comics, but I wasn't sure what they were about or what I wanted them to be about.

Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it.

Everything that I am going to do as an actress doesn't matter where it's coming from. It just has to be interesting.

Writing 'Dog Stars' was coming home. My spirit just sang. It's what I wanted to do my whole life.

Writing is something I should have done more of, it's a form of coming home.

What I love about research is when I'm having a bad day and I can't write, I'll just research some more, I'll learn some more and I'll have better command of the world of the film.

Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

I don't think anything that I have done has been forced by commerce exclusively.

Commerce is in no one's hand and that should not be the only reason to make a film ever.

I will do films I want to make. I will never make a film for commerce.

I would never put my songs in a commercial.

Commercial success and quality are not necessarily allied.

I want to balance commercial and off-beat roles.

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.

I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.

I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.

I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.

Nobody can write a good 30-second commercial.