Making Something Out of Nothing Quotes

I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.

I've had to sink my teeth into a role that was probably a fried-chicken dinner and make it into a filet mignon.

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

It's never about the screwup - it's always about the recovery. That's the thing about it... if it comes out a little rare you call it carpaccio. It comes out a little overcooked, you shred it up and put in on a sandwich.

Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.

There's nothing worse than trying to patch something or make do. If there wasn't something there in the beginning, it won't be there at the end.

Fox is great at making mountains out of molehills. Hannity is the best at it.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

My dad's nickname was MacGyver when we were kids. He'd hijack my projects all the time. When I got older, he would not do it as much... but he would just end up hijacking the whole thing. You should see the look in his eyes when he gets to create stuff.

My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.

One man’s trash is another man’s dissertation.

It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.

The word jugaad means a lot to us Indians.

You make a movie, and if there's a red light flashing in the distance, everyone thinks that the director had a whole lot of money and a great idea that the red light means something. Then you say, 'Yeah, we couldn't afford to shut the red light off that was broken two blocks away.'

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.

Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.

I like to compare the attitude and energy of an emerging start-up to that of the early hip-hop era. From working at labels like Bad Boy and Ruff Ryders, walking into the Def Jam offices, A Touch of Jazz and things like that, the vibe is that off making something out of nothing and making things work, and that's what I love about start-ups.

Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with.

With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.