Creative Scope Quotes

I tend to watch things that aren't really the genre of my own work.

There is not one thing that's Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It's too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine?

I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.

I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.

I love that, for Kanye [West], there's no difference between the epic and the personal. That makes him sound like a really grandiose douche - which, I don't think anyone, himself included, could contest - but at the same time, it's really amazing. I love the scope of his perfectionism.

Sci-fi gives you the scope to do grand stories.

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind.

I'm not a snob... there's room for entertainment that reaches a lot of people and can be really good, but you don't just have to be one kind of actor.

If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.

The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

We've got many different sides of music to us.

My ideas tend to be either really big in terms of like, the logistics, or really small.

I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.

I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.

I tried almost every genre. I decided at 14 I wanted to be a writer. I think I had to wait until they invented word processors to get serious about it, but I really tried every genre, and fantasy was the one that gave me the scope to do the most... you could play with worlds more.

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

We, as designers, have a job with so many possibilities and connections. We are connected to so many different portals, from art to movies to music to design. Fashion is always evolving. Actually, the field is huge. I don't think there is another profession that is so open to so many possibilities.

The stories that are out and the things that have been published are a sample of my interests. There are genres and sub-genres that I haven't waded into but have wanted to, or have waded into in other places but never actually written.

But my career's so much deeper than just horror.

It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.