Quotes About Creativity

A film, I feel, is a state of mind. A film eventually comes from an idea: based on an idea, you make a decision, and once you make the decision, you keep comparing everything to that, but don't question the decision itself.

I don't like comparing projects. I find it too difficult because I can't objectively look at a piece when I'm so subjectively involved it.

Before Missy, there was no comparison to what Missy was doing.

A lot of people say I got my own sound. I ain't never really got no comparisons. When people hear my music, they be like, 'He got his own lil sound.'

I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.

When you get into comparisons in any way of, 'we want it to be like this' or 'we don't want it to be like this,' it takes away from the authenticity of what you're trying to say and what you're trying to make.

I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

I believe the arts are the best way to help people go on a journey of self-discovery toward their own compassion and empathy for humanity and themselves.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself.

I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on.

I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.

I feel one shouldn't turn director unless one is compelled to tell a story.

I'm compelled to make music.

If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.

If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

People have given their lives to this industry to make movies compelling.

I don't really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere, because I don't read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable.

You need to be a good filmmaker to make a compelling two-minute film as well.

What should be driving the conversation is: What's the story? What's the movie about? Is it a compelling story? And if it is, then you make it regardless of the color of the people behind or in front of the camera.

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.