Quotes About Creation

As Placher well knew, there is no analogy from the side of the fallen creation that "works." None of the symbols, images, motifs, and themes "work" in any logical way, either as analogies or as theories to explain what God in Christ is doing on the cross.

I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.

Making music is fantastic.

I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

The magic of creation has always fascinated me.

There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.

God's colors all are fast.

I started Chipotle with the idea to create an experience that's fast - and not fast food.

Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate.

I set out to tell my story, which is based on my family. Dr. Cosby told his story in 'The Cosby Show.' The comparisons stop there in terms of my creation of the show. We just both happen to have black fathers at the center of it.

If God made the body, and the body is dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.

An artist is his own fault.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.

My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.

One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done.

Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.

When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.

Each feature I make is my focus at that time.

Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make.