Quotes About Creation

If I had an idea for a genius app, don't you think I would be getting it made immediately?

If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I'll probably abandon it immediately.

I think the pairing of your material practice with your subject is something that is the constant concern of every artist for time immemorial.

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

I show people how to build their own immortality device.

I want to be here for my family. I want to make stuff in Australia. I want to take what I've learned and contribute it to the industry. I think there's a moral imperative to do so for people like me.

Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.

Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.

When I started the 'Hellboy' series way back when, I wasn't really thinking consciously about the humor, but Hellboy does have my personality, and that's an important part of my personality.

We like to take impossible things and actually make them happen.

People want to create something bigger for themselves, and making up drama that isn't there gives people the impression that they have haters. It's all for attention so it looks like they are important.

In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.

To see somebody create something from nothing is incredibly impressive.

In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.

Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, 'In the beginning was the word.' In the same way, your words have creative power.

This digital world is what you make of it in the end.

'Generations,' we slaved over for a year; we worked it over and over and over again, and in the end, it just fell short.

In the end, given the way we view the world and the way that we view ourselves as an entertainment company, our biggest challenge is creating content and creating services. Excite people. We were fortunate we were able to do that with the Wii.

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.

Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.