Quotes About Creation

I created 'Dinner: Impossible' with a guy named Bryan O'Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it.

Especially as an independent director, when you're writing something on spec and you're trying to get it sold, you create this entire world in your head and you feel like you know every minutiae of how everything should be.

I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

I haven't sold one painting. I have either given them as gifts or just kept them. It's like babies you know. It's, like, hard to sell a baby.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

I am not really interested in only showcasing my life or work but plan to produce, write and create work that is solely my vision.

I think one of the things that I had to establish for myself quite early on was the rule that this is not my parents and this is not me or my family, that somehow this has to become a family that exists solely in the film of 'Minari.'

Composition has almost always been solitary.

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

I always loved that solitary experience of making things. There's a solitary aspect to animating... It's ultimately the animator and the puppet coaxing a performance out of it.

I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about.

All these countries like Holland and Scotland, they create their own problems. They are always complaining, but they don't solve anything. Don't look at what you don't have; look at what you can create.

When you create something that is popular, when you create a solution, you're an innovator, and you solve problems for people and they like what you have to offer, of course you automatically make money.

In mathematics and science we solve our problems as well as create them. But in art and philosophy things are not so simple.

Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it.

I love creating mysteries, but I am terrible at solving them.

Evolution is the idea some people have to explain life without God.

With some things, it's not that I like doing them; it's more that I like having done them. I like to look back and see that I've made a nice thing.

I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.

As an inventor, it's a rite of passage to have an engine. I'd like to have my own engine someday.

If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.

As a content creator, all you can do is do your best work and then hope that it resonates somehow with an audience.

I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim copies of a particular creation that could somehow hurt the creator.

There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know.