Jack Reynor Quotes

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

Somebody said that my work might be an interesting source of material.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me, and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

Regardless of any experiences in the past, for me it really is important to be engrossed in as much of the creative process as I possibly can. I was surprised with how much the eight years I spent on 'Castle' actually serviced that. I ended up, in a way, having a free education on that show.

I write all of my material. It's all me.

I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.

Being a creative person, I want to feel the highs and the lows.

Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don't show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.

The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that we're in the position to do that, and I don't take it for granted.