Creative clash Quotes

Film is a battleground.

Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.

Somewhere along the way, things got confused, and the pop-star side of my career got in the way of my musician side.

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

I did a guest appearance on 'Entourage.' That was horrible, because I'm used to analysing the characters, working with all the details... and they said, 'No no no, walk and talk, walk and talk! It's energy energy energy!' - so it didn't quite suit me.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Sometimes, I've had the experience with a director where I didn't share the same vision of the movie.

As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.

It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.