Bill Budge Quotes

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

I want to see creativity that breaks boundaries and isn't just about money.

Other people might buy a Rolls-Royce. I'd rather encourage people to be creative.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

I was just a very creative kid.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

There's a large opportunity for Bon Iver to be a special thing, even from a business standpoint - just trying to do cooler things. Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.