Jeffrey Donovan Quotes

I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

There's some beautiful filmmaking on television. I'm getting a lot of my artistic sustenance from what's happening there.

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.

I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling your own dreams.

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.

I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.