Quotes About Creativity

I think with drama, at least for me, my process, there's a lot of thought. I do a lot of back story. I listen to a lot of music. I'm very committed to a process when it comes to drama, but with comedy, I think it's really about letting loose.

It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.

You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

No matter how commonplace or dull your first job's duties seem, chances are you can find something to do that others don't want to and make it your own.

There's always a way to say something that could seem really commonplace and make it special again.

I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing.

I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.

The arts really matter in education. Sometimes the arts are the only way a student is unlocked. Sometimes it's the only way a student can communicate.

When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.

When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you start editing that you really start to became aware of your audience because you're thinking of how you communicate these ideas, and how lucid can you be, and yet stay within the language you've established.

I don't make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.

As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.

I like the idea that songs can communicate in a way no other media can. That's why I write them.

Writing music is something very natural... this is the way to communicate with other people.

I watch films, so I know what it is to be there in a theatre as the audience. So I always want to communicate with them when I make films, but that is not the only thing. I also want to say something which I feel deeply, and which I feel I can connect with the rest of the audience.

Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.

During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down.