Hope Sandoval Quotes

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.

The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

I can write pretty much anywhere.

Just get a bag and drop a dream in it, and you'll be surprised what happens.

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

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

Let the little fairy in you fly!

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

I really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do.

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.

On the road and traveling - that's when people are at their most creative.

I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

The studio is a time when you can do anything that you want to. You have that freedom.

Chaos can be incredibly creative.

I think that the more comfortable and the more you rehearse - granted, I don't like to take the air out of a tire; there is a fine line - but I think the freer you are with your dialogue, for example, the more open you are to a good idea walking up to you.

I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.

I don't really plan too much ahead when I write, because otherwise, I get kind of bored.

I think there's all these unknown things you can tap into when you just leave things open, and nothing is forbidden. Then you allow yourself to mold that thing that has been created by freedom and spontaneity and flexibility. That's why I avoid limiting performances of actors and characters.

Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you.

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.