Quotes About Creation

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.

I design music; I don't produce it.

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.

Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.

From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.

I'd like to produce. I'd like to come up with ideas and collaborate with people and directors and writers that I like, be a part of movies that have the same idea that the movies that impacted me have. I'd like to be able to do that for people.

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

When it came to the music that we produced, I am pretty happy with what we did.

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

You never know in a movie if it's going to be a sequel, but right now I'm proud of what we produced.

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.

To have produced a product where I had total creative control and see it flourish is like watching a baby grow.

I can't tell you how satisfying it is to have something that is your own idea get produced and then become successful.

I know it sounds funny coming from me, 'cause I produced it, but that's one of my favorite bodies of work. That's what 'Beast Mode' was when it came out and still is.

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.