Creative Resources Quotes

HBO spends almost a month perfecting an episode. They shoot at the same speed that you would shoot a major motion picture, and they give you all of the things that you need to succeed. They really do support their artists.

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

I don't know that it's a lack of creativity so much as it is , a lack of resources. And maybe a little bit of a lack of will but when you look at what fills every hour, let's just take CNN as an example, not because I think they're particularly egregious, but, they're sort of the ongoing hour, hour, hour. Why do they give us bulletins every single day on the latest poll? Very easy to cover a poll, right?

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

People are generally badly advised when they're starting out in the creative field.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.

Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.

I have an idea about building almost like a studio for some of the best Tropfest filmmakers, so they can come together and support and be given space and resources they need to tell great stories year around, so it's not just about the festivals. You know, the sky's the limit with this thing, and I'm still making it up as I go along.

Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a lot more time available. I think that makes a huge difference. I think he instinctively knows how to make films and all the different ways that you can make stuff. He's very gadget-wise, and he's very smart about all the different things that are available to a filmmaker nowadays, and he makes very good use of them. He has a theater in his house, for God's sake. It has proper curtains on it and everything. It's pretty wild.

In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them - to re-stock the trout pond, so to speak.

I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.

I really believe in giving tools and resources to other creators so that they can create beautiful videos.

It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

I feel like I would have been able to be the creative I am anywhere in America just because I have access to the Internet.

It's nice to have the support and infrastructure to do what I want creatively. That's kind of a rare thing to find.

As an actor, you need to use everything at your disposal.

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.

There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.

Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.