Robert Duvall Quotes

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

I don't get my ideas from reading other people.

I learned a lot from other people, and was inspired by what they did, but I didn't copy anyone. I put many different blocks together to become what I am. I don't know if that would have happened if everything was handed to me on a plate.

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

You have to create something from nothing.

I'm interested in creating new work.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

I love to be creative.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

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

I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.