Quotes About Creation

All the music has been done before except for the 'Eve of Destruction' and the 'Born in the U.S.A.' You keep reshaping - llke it was putty or clay.

Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you're doing something that has longevity.

There are so many details in a movie that it's amazing how much work you'll do to change what adds up to not that much material.

My faith and reason tell me that God created the world, and I'm not particularly interested in the details. I'll find out when I meet my Maker.

With 'Detroit,' we realized that we wanted to create an experience that could be meaningful.

I like to take a character and develop it.

I started developing 'The Revenant' before 'Birdman.'

I think I might want to get into development, as in developing my own sort of piece, whether it be for the stage or the big screen or for television.

It's an experience to actually be a part of developing a character on the go. Everyone should go through this once in their lifetime.

I've never seen the devil create music.

I think the way you make a movie dictates the movie that you make.

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

I'm usually the one who creates most of my work. I have a lot of different ideas that I want to do, so I'm always like, 'Get on it, girl.'

When you do a movie, it comes out of many different ideas that you had.

It feels like there are two very different parts to making movies. There's the making of it and then there's the putting out of it - and I like the making of the movies a lot more than putting it out into the world.

I think in order to really create something special, it has to be built on some foundation. And I think friendship is a good foundation you could always tap back on if you don't agree. So for me, it's not dating, it's more so friendship.

A strong concept is the most important thing in creating a record. When you can listen to it and see a whole movie in your head, that's what separates an instrumental album from a beat tape.

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.

I've had a couple tapes out and they weren't really tapes, it was just some songs that I had made, and then I would throw them together as a compilation and put a name on it. And then when I would release my next thing, I would just delete it.

A creative project is a moving target. You never end up where you start.