Catherine Hardwicke Quotes

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

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.

It's such a thrill in a relationship to be able to collaborate creatively. It's very romantic, and I like it.

I feel like there is a different, new energy when I collaborate with a living artist, whether it be a composer, designer, lighting designer. I love that process.

I've dated a few musicians in my life, and it's kind of always been that way for me. You unite through creativity and share that process and more together.

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.

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

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at work. Ray and I had this telepathy happening for a long time, where one of us always knew what the other could do with something.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

J.J. Abrams and I met, and we just had this incredible kind of vibe between us.

It's the best thing, when you are in a creative space, discovering something and being enamored with it and excited by it.

When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.

I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does, for awhile, become family.

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

I get excited by being in the studio and could never get burnt out in there.

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.

When I work with Future, it's almost like a work of art.