Quotes About Creativity

As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.

Not every work of art connects with the audience.

Art connects everyone.

Whenever it is inspired by literature a film is elevated and the audience connects.

It's one of those things that always astounds me, when I make a record and it connects with people.

I don't want to come and conquer American films or the American market. I just want to do movies that I care about, stories that I like.

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.

What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.

I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'

I feel like you come in under a cloak of someone else's skin for a while, but then you can shrug it off - you have to find your own voice, if you want to keep doing it. That became a really conscious thing for me.

I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.

I think you have some artists who try to be as conscious as they can be.

It wasn't a conscious decision to be bold or anything. It all depends on how different artists envision me.

I've always wanted to write, I've always wanted to direct. The conscious decision was always to not be an actor.

As film makers or any artiste that put work out there, what you are doing on your level is that you are putting consciousness out into the world.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.

As soon as I finish meditating, I get a beautiful feeling of expanded consciousness. When I'm in this headspace I can make so much progress in my writing.

The proper thing to do would have been to first ask my consent before remixing 'Mungda.'

Political consequences have never really come into my thinking. I didn't think about it when we made 'Maurice' or when I said first I would co-direct and then write the screenplay of 'Call Me'. I was just making something I thought I would enjoy creating.

Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.

'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.

I never studied interior design, but I'm a creative person. And what we surround ourselves with is very important - what makes you feel happy, what makes your senses feel good.