Creatives Quotes

I'm more focused or try to be more focused on my acting and writing and comedy and let the other stuff fall where it may.

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.

Films always make everyone else rich save the author.

Here's the thing I've learned about ideas: It's your job to have them.

Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

I really love animation as a storytelling medium, whether it's traditional, cel animation, or CG, or stop motion, which is more our studio's area of focus. But I find that the creatives behind any kind of animation are typically very similar, and so regardless of what aesthetic they use to realize their vision, I'm usually pretty into it.

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

I love shows. I love being with fans. It keeps you inspired.

I don't think generally speaking, there are a lot of innovators and inventors. Many of the designers take what exists already and update it or make it relevant for today. But true inventors have never been seen before. Bill Gates is a real inventor. I don't think fashion designers invent anything new. They innovate new ways to make fashion.

My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with great ideas, whether they are in fashion or technology or a new tool to improve ourselves.

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

The qualities I look for in planners or creatives is very much the same thing. Beyond the givens of talent and work ethic, I really look for people who are inspired by the everyday, people who are not afraid of the obvious and are able to reinterpret it into a creative and interesting manner.

Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.

I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

I think it's cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things.

Nothing is more exciting than being around new talent when it emerges.

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

It's so funny that Hollywood has become so entrenched in its formulas. Because what I've experienced is that the good stuff comes from places you don't expect.

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

You'd be surprised. A number of developers recognize that having a cultural activity in their space brings kudos. People like the idea of being near to creatives.