Marti Noxon Quotes

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original - to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

Some people play it safe in the world of drag - I'm guilty of it myself, sometimes - but I hope to always be a voice that encourages people to buck trends, follow their instincts, and do good in the world.

Be brave enough to live creatively.

Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

Be brave enough to create.

I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.

There's no such thing as a cautious creative.

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.