Quotes About Creation

A movie is very different when you're writing the script and you're building a story compared to what the final product is.

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo.

The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked.

When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.

Whenever I've done jobs, whether it's an acting job or writing job, there's an aspect of it that feels like you help build your piece of it, and then you watch as someone takes it, and they finish building it.

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.

The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

Sometimes I feel like I finish a song, and there's another song that I have to write in response to that song. Each is like its own separate feeling, its own separate universe.

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.

It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.

Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for the world to see.

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Books and movies are never finished, only surrendered.

Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.

Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.

Once I finish a film, I don't ever see it again. Never ever. I have never seen any of my films since I finished them.