Michael Scott Quotes

It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things.

As a film enthusiast and a lover of stories, I have read biblical stories and I've seen biblical films with the same zeal as I have read and seen my own country's stories. Most of the time, the creator doesn't know where he gets his inspiration from.

I'm just always making things that are personal but hopefully also inspiring, and share not just my story, but other people's stories.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

When a song comes to you, you can't run around it.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: 'Tell me! Tell me!' The stories choose me.

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

I don't know if I hadn't grown up poor, and in the neighborhood I did, if I would have had that much to bring to my art form. I call upon my past with characters.

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

My best songs come from a place outside myself.

I am always looking for material - whether for my notebooks or for Twitter or Instagram - which means I'm looking for meaning.

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

Creativity was definitely a big part of our household, and I remember always writing stories and being encouraged to be creative.

You can only write your own vision.

For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

When you open your mind up, and you go into a creative state, you can't just switch if off. When you have an idea, a creative impulse, and then you ignore it, it can keep you up when you just want to go to your bed - which is why it's great to have voice recorders on your phone!

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.