Quotes About Creation

I got the 'Max Rose' script, and I fell in love with it. It just hit me. It was something that needed to be made.

In early '57, I bought a Fender Telecaster.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

I love to put myself in a situation where I get to break a few things and construct a few cells in me.

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

It's fun to get out in the field. I really enjoy that. It's fun creating.

Nature made the fields and man the cities.

I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do.

If you can believe it, I wrote all of 'Awakened' around one chapter. That was the idea for the whole thing, so I figured out what happened that led to this and then where it went from there.

When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

My take on it, like a filmmaker or actor, is if you have much more colors within your creation, eventually people will appreciate what you're doing, and the other stuff is secondary, like critiques or even awards or anything else, as long as people enjoy it.

Every filmmaker has his own vision, and when they write a film or characters, they see certain people in those characters.

Filmmaking is a real craft.

I just love the process of filmmaking.

A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.

I always do very detailed demos. I feel that it's better to show the director a demo that sounds as close to the final thing as possible with samples. It takes time to create, but I feel that it's better to get the director on board very early on in terms of the sounds that I have in my head.