Creativity : (808)

" I’m a big fan of horror films, particularly ‘Friday the 13th.’ It’s one of the only genres that weaves abstract experimental techniques into the mainstream; having to be spooky requires a little more creativity. " - Weyes Blood

" I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn’t call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother’s peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read ‘The Piano Fairy Girl.’ " - Rebecca Wells

" I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life. " - Wendi McLendon-Covey

" I didn’t want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames. " - Peter Jackson

" I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We’re all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form. " - Julie Taymor

" I think I’m a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I’m not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano. " - P. J. Harvey

" What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity. " - Joshua Foer

" Writing chases after the senses, and conveys them in an altered form. When it is done well, the senses come alive in a new and captured form. " - Susan Minot

" I’m very interested in telling darker stories that maybe you are not used to seeing in animation. Especially because in animation you don’t see those kind of stories. " - Raphael Bob-Waksberg

" When I was first offered the book deal, I was like, ‘I am not a writer. I haven’t practiced this.’ My approach has been completely stream-of-consciousness, and then edit down, because that’s been YouTube for me forever. " - Tyler Oakley