Costa Ronin Quotes

When you have a situation where you're hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there's insane amounts of creativity in the room.

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will help push you to do things you'd never dream of doing by yourself.

I'm surrounded by such beautiful, creative people, and I just love sort of sharing their stories and their journeys.

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

The thing about working on a Ryan Murphy TV show is that he has such an extraordinary collective of artists, so everyone is really like a family.

My peers inspire me, especially being a newer artist.

I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.

Do you know what it takes to do [a global art project]? People, energy, glue.

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

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.

There are no great people. There are only great topics.

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.

I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up.

I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.

I direct with energy. I believe in energy. I think energy is an electric thing in actors. I try to inspire, encourage, and make choices with lots of energy. And truth. I'm big fan of truth and being funny. I like leading 50 people into battle every day.

I met Magnus Lidehall about two years ago, and the beat that I originally wrote 'Younger' on was one of the first ones that he sent me. I must have been around 21 at that time, feeling a bit lazy and disappointed with myself and my life.

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me.

What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?