John de Mol Jr. Quotes

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

The more you reason the less you create.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

In all the stuff I do, I really like it most when I'm being creative and collaborative, working with people who have my kind of energy around me.

I want to involve creativity more in technology and business. It is obvious that for us to be successful, a healthy relationship with creativity is needed.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

There is no end in creativity. Hence, to strive towards an end result is a fool's errand. Set goals, make music and paint pictures, but know that the crux of your happiness balances delicately on the wings of the act of creativity itself. Not at the finish line.

Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control.

Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.

There's a responsibility to the story, but there's also the sense of fun you have. When everybody else leaves, you get to continue to create. For me, there's no other way! I really like creating from the ground up.

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.

Nothing really came, everything was like inspired by something.

My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.