Quotes About Creation

My compulsion is to create things.

We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand.

I build computers.

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

One thing that I've often done under the Projectors is build an album from a central conceit.

I didn't think I could conceive.

To make 'Sound of My Voice,' we had to conceive the entire world and understand it holistically. If you want to show less in a movie, you've got to figure out more.

The next big project, you yourself have to conceive.

I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.

I think a conceptual idea comes to me first - something I've been mulling over a lot right before I feel like writing a book - and then the characters start to develop around it.

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'

I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.

The studio is the place for me to really confront my feelings and get it all out. I love being in that space and creating, doing what I love, making art.

I just want to make things that people want to buy. I have no confusion about this.

Whatever you are making, whether it's a song, an album, a painting, a film, you're connecting with a tradition, and I do feel connected to New York music.

As soon as I have the idea, I need to create as quickly as possible, because it's what's going on in society, and that's what connects me to my audience.

There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

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.

I think perhaps we all cook to feed some kind of hunger in ourselves. I am nourished by being surrounded by family and friends, by creating something delicious for them, by nurturing them.

Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.

I want to create a world with objects and surroundings that are human, more romantic, and less sterile.

The best part of success is that it got me past the basic survival level of existence so that I was comfortable. I didn't have to worry about stuff pertaining to survival. Once that was taken care of, I got the chance sit down and create and work at what I do.

The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many.