Caryl Churchill Quotes

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I have seen too many screenwriters of promise become formula addicts and slaves to stop watch structure. Spend that time watching movies, reading screenplays, reading plays, and most importantly - write from your gut.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

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

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.

I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.

I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point, and I thought the best way to start it is to write something myself or with someone and I'd go from there. My own material.

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.