Stephen Vizinczey Quotes

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

I am not someone who forgets things and changes his way of thinking.

Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create.

I'm just not a quitter and I just never, ever give up. I was forced to adapt because if I didn't, I was losing inspiration only doing what I was doing.

The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.

I'm always open. I try not to have a closed mind. In fact the only reason why I'm able to continue to make films since 1986 is I have been adaptable. If I weren't flexible I sure wouldn't be making films this many years as I've been doing it. I've been making a film a year almost since 1986 and that's hard. That ain't easy.

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.

Consistency isn't behaving the same way all the time.

Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.

There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

Somehow, you realize you can kind of do anything in music. You don't have to be good at a certain thing; you can just do whatever you want.

What you create doesn't have to be perfect.

I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

In the music industry, it's pretty easy to make an album just because you want to keep going, like, 'This is the formula.' But the formula is your life. You have to live your life and you have to live it well - that's the formula.

One must not imitate what one wants to create.

I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.

You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?," or, "Why would anyone ever want to go see that?"

Don't play the way it goes. Play the way it is. And the way it is every time you play it, it's slightly different. Look for something. So that's the challenge not to be bored.

Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

When the darkness rolls in, I'll be there through thick and thin.