Carla Gugino Quotes

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

Any characters that make me think, 'I don't know if I can do this,' are the ones I most want to do. I don't want to do the same thing over and over.

I am a very curious person, not just about my life in music. I love arts and creativity.

Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.

Creativity is our North Star. This way of working and this speed, this new opening and innovation, putting everything in discussion must remain at the base of what we do.

While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me try new and different things.

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.