Javed Jaffrey Quotes

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

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

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

Everyone is creative, but we are only as creative as we allow ourselves to be.

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.

I think that anyone who is in any way creative or is creating something, whether an architect or fashion designer, I think if you have the opportunity to create something that is fully you, it frees your mind and your spirit and gives you the opportunity to really find yourself.

I kind of lose my mind a little bit if I'm not making something.

Any one thing can get in the way of you and your brain being comfortable and being inspired. It's the difference between a really big song and a song that never existed.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

I really think of the studio as being like craftsmanship time, and then playing is about releasing energy, and the two are really different.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

My compulsion is to create things.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.