Joe McNally Quotes

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

In the beginning, I didn't have to love them, my acts. It was mostly about being successful, getting a trophy, and making some money. Now if I don't love the idea of it, I don't work on it.

I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.

If you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

When things get tough... Make good art.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

Music inspires me.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

In acting, you can't do things for the money. You've got to do a project because you like it.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.