Quotes About Creation

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

We always set out to just make a great movie.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

Once you know how to make a movie, you can't not make a movie.

I make movies I want to see.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

It's easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them.

I made all my generals out of mud.

I can't remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn't real smart, but I said, 'I don't like the sound of that.'

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.

What's fascinating to me is the way that multiple stories go into creating any world - a fictional world, but certainly the world that we live in as well. Of course, I cannot control that world. I can just control the fictional world.

Computers are extremely helpful and amazing for a multitude of scientific areas, but for me, when it comes to creation, they are insufficient and slow. Therefore, all of my efforts are to stay away from that beast.

I blame the Russians for a lot, but pinning the creation of ISIS on them is a murky, tenuous, triple-carom bank shot at best.

It's important to exercise your artistic muscles for your mental health and for your fulfillment 'cause as an artist, you're a creator. Your fulfillment comes from finishing stuff and creating things that you're proud of.

I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.

The idea for The Muse came from my own life, from a product that I wanted but couldn't find anywhere. Sometimes when you see a need for something in your own life and you can't get it, you feel crazy enough to make it happen yourself.

I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.

Music happens. It cannot be made.

Composing music is hard work.

I really don't have a method. I gravitate towards the organic/acoustic, but I still often complete songs musically before attempting to find the lyric.

It's really important to create something, like with my creations as a musician. Just let it flow. Focus on how to deliver message to audience. Don't get ego.

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