Quotes About Creativity

I have an imagination that will go in any direction it is prodded. I pride myself on being able to become enthusiastic about anything: If you tell me to write a screenplay about cucumber farms, I'll swallow hard, and in 48 hours, I'll be in love with cucumber farms.

I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

It's nice to stretch in different directions and use different muscles. You can get swallowed into Hollywood, where it's all about bums on seats and how commercial a film is.

I love the entire 'Constantine' mythology, the 'Dead Man' mythology, the Alex Holland 'Swamp Thing' mythology.

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

I guess because I came to it later in life, I realized, 'Oh, going to a fashion show is like going to the opening of Degas at the Met or going to see Swan Lake.'

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

When I saw the movie 'Black Swan,' I liked the darker aspect of it, the more dramatics, and that's what I like to do for my programs.

People think I got rich out of 'Swan ,but I didn't at all: it's the royalties from 'Oliver' and 'My Fair Lady' that have kept me going.

I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing.

I appreciate people who sway to the beat of their own tambourine, like Iris Apfel and Helena Bonham Carter.

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

I swear I pick up little gems from every artist that I work with. That's why I'm so appreciative that I've been able to be a songwriter first.

I swear like a sailor, assuming the sailor in question died in 1800 and was really square.

I swear, I have not played 'Dare Iz A Darkside' damn near since I did it. Seriously!

When I first started working at Disney animation, I can't tell you how many people said to me, 'Oh, man, take a powder.' Nobody takes animated musicals seriously. I swear.

I did go bankrupt because everybody copied me - every single industry. But genuinely, it doesn't matter. I swear I don't care.

I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job.

I'm really happy that people understand that man-repelling is a good thing. I was afraid people would think I was mocking fashion, and it's like, 'No, I swear, I'm wearing feathered sleeves as I write this!'

I swear to God, my career is like this weird origami thing.

Don't be scared of 'said.' Writers sometimes go looking for alternatives because they worry that 'he said' and 'she said' will feel repetitive if they're used all the time, but I swear, they won't.

In all my content I don't really swear or use profanity, because I believe comedy can just be pure.