Jamie Hewlett Quotes

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

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

When you're drawing something, you kind of run a movie in your head. You might close your eyes or stare into the distance and kind of see a movie unfolding and, you know, grab a certain moment or think, 'Oh, yeah, that's when we need just the point that he appears around the corner but just as she's getting into the car,' you know?

If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

There is no difficult moment working together because when we start a new project, Dante starts to make all the sketches and I can see the vision of the movie and then I start my job.

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

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

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.

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear.

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.'