Quotes about Creativity

When I want to read a book, I write one.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

When I want to read a good book I write one.

I write my films with Reema Kagti, and I think all the characters that I have written, somewhere or the other, reflect my thoughts, ideology and morality.

There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a reflection as opposed to an interpretation.

The Congressional Art Competition encourages and cultivates the ingenuity and creativity of young people in our region.

You can make an album, and people won't get it. Or won't connect with it. Or won't - whatever is going on in the universe at that time, it doesn't really register.

Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

Ben Horowitz, he's the guy. He's really big into hip-hop, and he's a brainiac.

The song 'Leroy and Lanisha' on my album 'The Epic' is really my homage to 'Linus and Lucy.'

I really want to work with Eminem. I know it will never happen, but I would love if he let me do a hook on one of his songs or he featured on one of my songs. It would be incredible. I've just always admired him since I was young.