Harvey Mackay Quotes

The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process.

Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

I love being with artists because I'm always open to getting into something.

In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that part of ourselves that dreams. The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

Talent should minister to genius.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens.

New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the people that you get exposed to.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

At Pixar, 'Wall-E' was our ninth film, and they've all been successes - more than that, they've all really touched people. Everybody wonders, 'How do you do it?' Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard.

I keep a creative group around me.

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.

I look up to Walt Disney and what he has done.

I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating characters.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.

I see Walt Disney as kind of the epitome of a dreamer. He was a very forward thinker.

Sometimes a creative environment affects what happens within it.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.