Quotes About Creation

In this era of digital special effects, I think it's good to work with our hands and our hearts, to use water and clay, to dry it in the air from the sun. This brings you back to the element of life.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.

We're a very imaginative species; we're very good at creating fictions.

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

There is some pleasure in doing a movie and problem solving on a specific movie and getting a movie made, but once they are done, we don't look at them again, much less relate one to another.

I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.

Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies.

I decided that I wanted to become an engineer of the biological world, specifically a protein engineer.

Specifically with respect to the Inhumans, they are almost a mythological creation in and of themselves - the way they work, the way they operate, the fact that they're royalty - and they've always been involved with a lot of the big cosmos events that Marvel has done.

I definitely like making music in the studio, but I never had it out to make a CD specifically.

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.

I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. The things that sound like they might be Crue, I put aside on my hard drive and keep them in that pile.

It's very, very hard to create something that is big these days because you have niche markets - and, you don't necessarily need to be big; the show is specifically created for a small group of people. You know, if it's on the USA network, well, then a small group of people is fine.

With silent films, you're better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It's this pact that leads to emotion being created.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

I don't know what the sound is or the song is until I've spent a lot of time on it. I'm always chipping away at it, rethinking it.

So much of the time spent on 'Zootopia' was inventing it. What does it look like? How does it work?

I grew up loving X-Men, Spider-Man and Batman. Those are obviously the key big ones, but there's always something kind of cool about Aquaman still, the idea of creating a huge world that is on our planet.

To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it.

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.