Bill Sienkiewicz Quotes

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constraints on me. Something where I can shock everyone.

Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.

In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.

It's really fun to go back and forth from acting projects to directing projects. You don't have as much responsibility when you're acting, but you have more fun. But then you miss having that responsibility, and so you go back and torture yourself and make a movie.

When you have somebody writing or acting for you, you have to be free to have them hate you so you can get your ideas across without worrying.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

There are networks and executives who are willing to take risks on vastly different material, and as an actor, there are some really juicy roles to sink your teeth into.

There is a clearing for new creative thought in choreography. I don't feel intimidated; there is a lot I can do that is new or innovative or different.

I've seen situations where I think comics are really unrealistic about what creative expression and what the artistic freedom, what that entails.

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

I'm an indulgent writer - I'm not sure, however, that's something I'm interested in changing. Writing should be indulgent: you should take big risks on the page, you should make big mistakes, you should be excessive at times. I let myself do as a writer what I probably would be less likely to allow as an editor.

I try never to say no when it comes to creativity, but I do try and lead down an "appropriate road" - like not on furniture or the walls.

You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can't.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

I don't agree with most forms of censorship, and I especially don't agree with the idea that one needs to be from the same cultural, ethnic, or religious background as the subjects they portray in order to be qualified to portray those subjects. I believe that compassion and empathy should cross all of those category barriers, and the conversations art creates can be inflammatory initially, but I think are most often constructive and healing in the long run.

If I don't have to think about the commercial aspect of it, then I feel like I'm going to make better films.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives