Quotes about Creativity

I laugh at anyone who spends so much time writing about what doesn't exist - mental concepts.

A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge. -If you knew how little you had to revenge....

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see—every scrap

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

If I can be in a place where my image is encouraging people to see different people behind the camera, and my image and the images I make can help open up a certain world view, I think that's all a part of a larger spirit of change and progress, and I'm happy to be part of it.

Jimmy Van Heusen was a top security test pilot in World War II as well as being a great songwriter. He was absolutely incredible. Van Heusen inspired me to write music.

The cost of an animated film really comes down to man hours. If you gather together world-class talent, then the question becomes how do you deploy that talent in a way that minimizes waste.

My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.

If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.

When someone is themselves through their music, it's soul music. James Taylor is soul music to me 'cause it's just him talking about him. It doesn't have anything to do with black or growing up in the church; it's where it comes from. It's just soul music.

I couldn't be a Taylor Swift. I would really suck at being Taylor Swift.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.