Creative Process Quotes

I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.

Pain is a part of life. It's certainly part of my creative process.

Every company, of course, teaches you so much humanly and professionally [about] yourself and your creative process.

If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.

I personally just love movies about the creative process.

Instead of command and control, managing the creative process is about facilitating and permitting.

The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear.

Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing.

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.

As I paint, I realise, while it's something I do very much by myself, it's very solitary, the creative process feels similar to making music to me now, at least as far as my brain is concerned.

In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we’re going to whine or do the work.

I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we disagree, I would say.

I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we disagree, in the band, I would say.

The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process.

The idea right now - and it may evolve - would be a live-action movie where some of his characters would be animated. To me, this movie is very much about the creative process.

One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.

The whole creative process...is putting opposites together into something that wasn't there before.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

Maybe down the road, I can see myself being part of the creative process, but acting is definitely my first and true love.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

My mom was always making me clothes. We'd go to the fabric store, pick out patterns, and it was a creative process. I heard that word a lot growing up: creative.

Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.

Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

It's weird how things are really stop-start in my creative process. I can't just turn it on - it just happens kind of randomly and I've just got to ride it when it's good. Surf's up! It's like that.

Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and the character sketches.

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

chaos is the first step in the creative process.

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.

Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.

Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.

For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.

Even though I didn't write 'Shaun Of The Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' I never felt left out of the creative process.

I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.

Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process.

I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.

Looking at the creative process is like looking into a crystal: no matter which facet we gaze into, we see all the others reflected.

I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!

I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

The need is not for the creation of new analytical techniques specially designed for the negotiation process, but rather for the creative use of analytical thinking that exploits existing techniques.

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs.

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.