As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I can say that screenwriting is a vastly rewarding creative life – if you fight hard enough to do it on your own terms. Whether I write books or not, my screenwriting life has been creatively rewarding and remains so.
I’ve had such an incredible arc, so it made sense to me, creatively, that we’ve told Laurel’s story. It has come to an end in the ‘Arrow’-verse.
I felt like when you’re an actor, you don’t get to fully creatively express yourself – most of the time, it’s not your own writing or direction.
I’ve wanted to produce for a long time. I’d love to get a bunch of my girlfriends together – a female writer, a female director – and create something. Creatively, it’s a different dimension. Why wouldn’t people want that?
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
I’m very strong creatively, in my music.
To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art.
Even though the ‘Shooter’ character on TV is so close to the real-life me, I’m still playing with ways to creatively portray that character.
At one point, I just decided that it might be more creatively rewarding to put my time into writing on stuff that I could really be proud of rather than trying to get a one-episode part on ‘Modern Family’ or something.
I think it’s amazing that I’m 45 and it is the most creatively successful year of my life.
I love the company of women. I love collaborating creatively with women. I feel like in general, women get stuff done.
I’m interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.
People who have worked in some capacity for the good of society are often well-equipped to meet challenges, think creatively, and be innovative.
The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn’t otherwise have. So I’m very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that’s all I want.
I’m very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself – and I think that comes from my mother.
I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, ‘There’s a lot I can do with acting – there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.’
I always prefer to end a show where you’re feeling creatively on top.
Playing Juliet in ‘Heavenly Creatures’ changed my life, and the role of Clementine in’ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ opened many new doors creatively.
When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can’t hold ’em back. You got to work with ’em, dude. What you think, I’m just gonna do what’s on the page, say ‘yes sir, no sir’? I’m creatively beyond that.
I’m always friendly and encouraging on set. I want people to be at their best creatively.
There are very funny people who aren’t good at Twitter and people who are really good on Twitter where that’s the best or the only thing they do. There are some people I know that don’t write creatively outside of Twitter, but they’re so good at Twitter.
Being independent isn’t as flashy as a lot of people may think. It’s a lot of hard work; its a lot of investing your own money. And to creatively time to make your day work – it’s on you to make it work, and no one else.
I wanted people to talk about the finale of ‘The Vampire Diaries’ as one of their favorites, which is a lofty ambition, but it certainly drove me hard creatively to make sure that we had put as much thought and love into it as we possibly could.
If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to help, try to sort rumors from truth, and remember that the decisions you make will have repercussions after the disaster has passed.
I create a lot of my content in one or two days for the next month because I can get really creatively inspired and then I can spend the rest of the couple of months thinking about other creative ideas but focusing on business, logistics, being effective, practical, and productive.
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
‘Wild Hope’ just felt like such a selfish venture to me. It was a way for me to get out of my head, get some clarity on certain situations, and finally be a part of something that I was completely behind creatively and proud of.
I feel, in my live shows, I can be as dynamic as I want. It’s my comfort zone. When I get in the studio, it’s more of a solitary experience, which can be good creatively.
I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.
I applied everything that I could muster creatively to this mission to find a way to create a new ‘Jurassic Park’ movie for a new generation.
Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren’t humorous, they are just crap.
The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing.
I’ve often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. ‘They’re never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.’ I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do.
So I think it was to Bryan’s credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it.
I know, people have had different things to say about Marvel, about how creatively free they are or not free they are, but for me, the rule has always just been stay as good as I can possibly be, and stay one step ahead of the curve, and stay unique, and stay myself. And they seem to like that.
My uncle was in a ska band called the Top Cats; that was my first proper influence, as I was taken to see them every week. It sort of built up, the want to replicate it creatively.
My passion stems from seeking world peace and finding how we can live together creatively rather than violently.
When I finally accepted a full time job, I saw that as giving up on my artistic dreams. But three years later, I wrote a blog post based on life in the corporate world, which went viral and became the basis for my first book, which allowed me to quit my job to be creatively independent once again.
It’s always an interesting experience with the ‘Saw’ films, when a sequel comes out that I didn’t have anything to do with, creatively, because here’s this idea, this story, and this character that I created for James Wan, but now it doesn’t need me anymore.
Record companies don’t think creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative people. Nobody’s looking at the future of music because they’re concentrating so hard on what they can get from it right this second. It’s really hard to see an artist; it’s a lot easier to see money.
And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.
If you’re not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can’t think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.
What Joe and I get excited by, creatively, is exploring all of the different forms of filmmaking.
Ashley Cheng, who I’ve worked with for 20 years, he’s the studio head in Rockville now. He manages more of the day-to-day stuff. I can focus creatively on what we’re doing now and what we should be doing in the future.
Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.
My education was seeing and touching the world. I would read about the history of a castle with my mother – who was a teacher, so she home-schooled me – and then she would take me to the castle, and we would climb on it, and then I’d write creatively about it that night.
A run-of-the-mill bad guy role does not satisfy me creatively.
I don’t want to be a part of a show that is creatively dissatisfying.
My general advice for writers/comedians is, make stuff you like and are proud of. Put it in a place where people can see it, whether that’s onstage or on the Internet or wherever. Just do the things that make you happy creatively, and then show them to people.
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
I was in a fertility situation publicly, so I disappeared. I was very satisfied just being to able to creatively express myself with writing. The white hot publicity that came from ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ was appreciated but not sought, so I was happy to walk away from it and then write.
