Quotes About Creation

I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

With comics, there's no budget. There's a budget in terms of you have to pay an artist and a colorist and all that, but you can do anything you want to do.

I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to say.

I think art always comments on the time and place it was created.

It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.

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 just try to make the best record I can make, without any ego or comparisons at all. I never sit there and tell myself it's going to be a masterpiece or anything!

All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

One thing Vince McMahon does, and he does a lot of things great, but he knows how to create great television, very compelling television.

With a very small team you can create compelling content and reach a large audience.

I have no complaints about 'The Walk.' I made it, and I'm very happy with what happens.

When we first put 'Let It Be' out, I had to cut out a lot of stuff that I really like and wanted to stay in there. The stuff in the new DVD has a lot of the stuff that had to be cut out. So for me, it's like the egg is now complete.

'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.

I've never even watched one of my films since they're completed.

I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.

You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.

Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.

If you compose a song from your soul, it will come out well.

Because a composer's soul goes into a film, they should do the entire film, even the background score. If not, then don't do it.

Composing is an emotional thing.

Isn't composing music akin to film direction?

Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.