Diane Lane Quotes

As creators, we feel constant demand for innovation from the world. This puts immense pressure on the creative process and oftentimes can have a dampening effect.

I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end.

I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.

Inevitably any series that goes on too long will reach a point where it starts struggling for ideas, so I've always been really aware of getting out while the going's good.

There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the night and lie in the dark telling myself stories. There are also long, dark nights when I just know I'll never write another word: I'm finished, empty, a husk... Oh dear, yes, twitch, yawn, how I've suffered insomnia for my art.

You can only be independently creative for so long until your brain burns out.

When one gets time duration, one becomes very restricted, and hence, creativity suffers.

Research suggests that someone who is constantly drawing on their creative abilities can, on average, be productive for no more than six hours a day.

I don't want to be seen in every second film. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh no, she's in this one too.'

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.

I always want to have time to experiment, and have transitional things, and have these weird non-songs, but usually the stuff I'm working on comes down to this weird deadline, where it just never happens, and it's kind of a bummer.

I wonder if some artists determine their entire identity through that which they create. How dangerous! Imagine if they were to stop creating!

It's a debilitating process, working with the studios. With the length of time it takes for drafts and development deals, your enthusiasm is gone before you're ready to make the film.

At least in films you will go, you shoot for four to five months and then you can take a break. But I know how TV works… the directors are mindblowing, they work non-stop.

You know, if the filmmakers were satisfied with the film they just made, they could jump right in and make another one, instead of lingering on the last one.

For me it's just, I have too many ideas, man. It's a problem, actually.

You can only be creative so long and then you're just down and out and completely destroyed.

It's hard to prep a movie in five days and shoot it in five days and cut it in barely any time. You don't get quite enough time to make the thing, let alone tell the story.

That's always the time to quit - when you have nothing to say as an artist and creative person.

I don't know if I've got the capacity for all of the creativity that I want to put out there, which is annoying and frustrating - it's kinda like torture.

The thing I worry about is, what happens when your talent flees? Because you see that with writers sometimes: they start writing these awful books. And there's something sort of horrifying about it.

The album 'Physicist,' I erased all the work that I had done halfway through. I think that's probably why that contributed to that album being sort of sub-par for me, just because by the time I had to go back and do it, I was just over it.

I don't think I can ever write about young kids anymore. I completely shot my wad there.

I can make something for a long time and just not come up with an ending. It's finishing things that I don't enjoy.

The good news, when you write with another, is that you never have an empty page in front of you. The bad news is... you never have an empty page in front of you.