The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.

All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such an original, creative and masterful sound, but there are no new albums. My thought was that there's a way to keep their sound alive.

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

I was quite creative at school, and was also interested in fashion , but I was shy - I'm still not the loudest of people, believe it or not.

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.

The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time.

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative.

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.

I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that's losing consciousness, that's getting harder.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.

I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.

And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.