Creative Difference Quotes

Hollywood looks backwards and tries to repeat. And we really try not to do that. We don't always succeed, but I really think that what we try and do is different.

I can tell you it makes a big difference to have a director who is collaborative. What motivates a character in my mind could be completely different from what the director's thinking. You have to have those conversations ahead of time and throughout the process. It affects the performance.

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting.

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

I'm not the first guy to make a record or to make hip-hop, but I did it differently.

It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.

I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.

Nah, I'm not one of those 'hip-hop is dead' people. I just like different artists. I never look at it as one entity. I've always felt like that.

Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.

The truth is, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist is the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two have in common is the blank page. The jobs entail different talents and different desires.

'Star Wars' is different to anything I've done before.

J. K. Rowling is one of my favourite authors, and I really admire how she created this big wizarding world. But I think our books are very, very different, and I don't think there can be a next J. K. Rowling. She is one of a kind.

There are people whose work I greatly admire who just don't write to my experience in any way.

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.

I think that gulf is what makes the work interesting, but as a creator it's endlessly frustrating because I'm starting out with this goal, this thing I'm trying to create, and then the thing I actually do create is very, very different. It's always painful, in some ways, especially when it's just finished.

Novelists do not swing on the same pendulums as critics.

I'm building my fan base around the fact that here's someone who does things a little differently, who brings other musical influences into country music, and you never really know what she's going to do next.

I've made six zombie films; I've tried consciously to make each one different from the next.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.

Every album has its own character.