Martha Beck Quotes

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.

Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.

Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from.

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.

With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of fear, not what's best for the film.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.

Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.

It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid."

The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.

In the creative process, my ego has always been a huge tyrant ... a dictator and kind of rude and very misleading, because sometimes when I'm doing something, I say, "This is great! This is fantastic! Very genius!" And 20 minutes later, I feel like a dead jellyfish. "You are a stupid a**hole. This is a piece of sh*t. Nobody will care about it."

Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.

You can't be creative when you're completely happy.

Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

You are relying on a waiting on other people in acting and films, so to be able to have something that I have full creative control over is really very therapeutic.

When I got sick this past summer, I couldn't - my mind just wasn't on music. The rest of the band understood. But once October came, I felt ready to get back again.

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

Marianne Williamson has written that there are really only two primary emotions in the universe, love and fear. So anytime you're feeling anxious, insecure, worried, angry or resentful, you've left love and entered fear.

Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts... And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values?

Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger