Quotes About Creation

I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.

God gave men and women work to do in the Garden before the Fall.

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.

When I created the email in the U.S., my mentor could have easily copyrighted it and taken credit for it.

Writing by committee becomes much less about a vision. It is really about a piece of merchandise.

The greatest job creation is driven by entrepreneurs and young businesses, so they merit special attention.

Created in the awesome image of God, men and women know that life has a meaning beyond 'eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.'

Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess!

Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of magical creation (fantasy), works of fantastika often preclude comedy, because humor gets in the way of messages of doom or struggle.

Beginnings are always messy.

Writing a Metallica song is a journey and a process, and it takes time, but that's what's special about it.

I love all my albums... I use the metaphor they're like my children: some do better than others, but you love them all equally.

I never think in metaphors or fully make those kind of associations myself. I just lay down a complex situation and hope things arise from that.

There is nothing, not a thing, like the process of creating a character for the stage - you can't get it anywhere else. Unless you're totally method and spend six months living your life like your character for a film, the theater is the place to get that intense acting experience.

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

I think few people in their lifetime have the chance to be involved in something like the creation of Microsoft - that's always going to be something I'm known for.

I get the beginning. I get the end. Then I write the middle. That's how I do it.

Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.

The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.

They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation.

'Avatar' means so many things to so many different people. When I think of the creation of it, I think of me and Mike at the computer in a little apartment in Burbank.

What does Macbeth want? What does Shakespeare want? What does Othello want? What does James want? What does Arthur Miller want when he wrote? Those things you incorporate and create in the character, and then you step back and you create it. It always must begin with the point of truth within yourself.

The thing is, Mac Miller wrote all of 'Divine Feminine.' That was a great album.