George Lois Quotes

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

I've been doing documentaries for about 25 years and want to continue to do that, but I love the idea of working in a different medium. Advertising pushes the envelope creatively, and there is some really great work being done right now, so I'm excited to jump into it.

Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.

We've always had ups and downs at Pixar, starting with the high we felt doing something we'd never done - 'Toy Story' - and the low we felt right after when we realized we'd messed a bunch of things up along the way.

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

Before 'The Walking Dead,' a few of the jobs before that were just like, 'Ugh.' I try and make everything as creative as possible, even when I get the script and can't imagine what I'm going to do with it.

One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.

Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.

You can't allow your creative sessions to be dominated by miniscule editing processes.

Maybe I can't write without painting myself into a corner first.

You work really hard on something, and you know you can't always make great work. It just doesn't happen like that, I don't think, at least not for most people, anyways.

You start to compete with yourself when your catalog gets bigger and bigger... I mean, everybody wants the next 'Bless the Broken Road,' but you don't write those every day, so it's difficult.

I know someone might look at a creative person's job and think it's pretty fun. It is. It's the best thing in the world, but it's also extremely challenging to carve out your own completely unique path and not following a default path that someone else has already paved.

Every song is a long process. First I have to write a story for it, and then to make it into a song, I have to make it short and then shorter - so it's not easy!

I have a few filmmaker friends who are known for shooting super-fast, and they say that you don't have the time to over-think things and how that helps things out creatively.

Everyone will always have ideas about how to make your work better. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. Start it differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby, and you know what's best.

The creative process requires a period of boredom, of being stuck. That's actually a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people mistake for writer's block, but it's actually just part one of a long process.

Miyazaki has a great talent, but I really struggle every time I create a new film and am far from Miyazaki.

For me personally, and I'm sure not everyone is like this. But for me I find it difficult to choreograph in the daytime.

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.