Quotes About Creation

I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.

For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.

I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

I generally write the songs accidentally. They generally come out of nowhere.

You work on something for so long that you become numb to it. Like, you don't even know how to listen to it because you listened to it so many times.

I call it a process of elimination. You're nurturing ideas, and that takes time. What happens is there's so many, what I say, 'great ideas.' What you have to do is try to consolidate them and put them into one song, and then your song becomes eight minutes long.

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

Desire creates its own object.

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.

You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.

Whether or not you like an object, it's the product of an individual person making decisions about things. That's what makes it interesting.

I always liked the challenge of that, how to take an inanimate object and build something around it that's scary.

Controlling the design of an everyday object is very satisfying.

Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define their meaning through our interpretations.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer, with dialogue, attribution, action, objects in the scene, setting... It can be sometimes that delineated.

I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?'

The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.