Michael Wincott Quotes

When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

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

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

When you're too relaxed it's not good to create.

I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.

We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because we are too afraid to express our uniqueness.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.