My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.
If making movies was easier, there’d be a lot more good movies. So you kind of learn that if it’s just a good script, or if it’s just a good producer, that’s not always enough. You need an entire team of creative people coming together.
I’m nocturnal when it comes to recording – I’m just more creative at night.
With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.
I’m thankful for weird people out there ’cause they’re some of the most creative people.
Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.
There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.
I don’t really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I’m a creative artist. All I know from business I’ve picked up along the way.
At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.
I’ve never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.
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.
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.
I can’t stay friends with anyone who doesn’t have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I’ve known are also men of great wit.
It’s not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It’s more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.
As a creative person, you want to be creative, you know? You don’t want to constantly wait around – a lot of movies fall apart, or there’s just not as much out there as there used to be.
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.
To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Top creative and innovative talent wants to live in a vibrant, transit-friendly, global city that offers access to not only great jobs but also great food, entertainment and culture.
I have a lot of respect for, always dig, the crew. Sometimes a lot more than the cast. But a good run production team is paramount to making a good film. You just can’t it done without a good line producer, without creative producers, without people who are making stuff happen.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you’ve never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.
I think, generally, the creative process is hurt if you’re thinking about the end as opposed to focusing on day-to-day decisions.
I would love to write more children’s books. There is such a high standard out there for children’s books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic.
For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.
There’s tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.
I’m always trying to prove to my 17-year-old self that I can do creative things I thought weren’t possible.
My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She’d buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.
The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality.
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out.
My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.
The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it’s with you all the time.
Meditation is the bridge that helps connect you with your inner self. I believe that quietude also makes one more creative.
That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
It’s nice to be in a creative world that’s kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down some pathway while you’re recording that you might not like later. And there’s a lot of time to get in your own head and stay there.
For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
It’s an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
I’m not there to tailor the role to me: I’m there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I’m guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me.
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn’t exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
What’s become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opportunity to understand our relationship in a more adult capacity. The unknown is great material for any creative outlet.
I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are so creative, because it’s not separated.
I have an incredible confidence in the resilience of the human spirit and the creative ability of the Holy Spirit. So, if you can get people asking the right questions, it really will start moving in the right direction.
Acting isn’t really a creative profession. It’s an interpretative one.
Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.
I feel like I’m a creative, and I want to take advantage of that.
You can be more creative when you’re not feeling like a slave. When you’re on a record label, they have you like that.
I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.
I’ve proven I’m courageous. I’m gutsier than anybody; I’ve got a better imagination than anybody; I’m essentially more creative than any other actor I know, and I’ve proven I take risks. I don’t think I need to prove anything to myself any more.
