Twyla Tharp Quotes

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.

I always like to get a role where I think, 'Ah, I know this is probably going to be played like this, but I'm going to do it like this.'

When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.

I want to go out there and do some different things that people are like, "Wow. That's crazy. Why didn't I think of that?"

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.

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

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity.

We're just gonna keep making things and challenging ourselves to make them more cheaply and more renegade and more interesting. That's the only thing we might challenge ourselves to do in the age of so many movies and so many TV shows. We're aware that we're asking time of people to watch stuff, and that there's so much stuff to watch, so we're gonna try to offer you something unique. And it may not always succeed, but it will definitely be different.

You cannot play for safety and make art.

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

I love to be creative.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.