I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.

You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.

One day I was in the grocery store, and I saw raspberries, and I was like, 'Oh, I can make a lip stain out of that.'

Just making 'Black Rainbow' was like my minimum requirement before death, so that I could die with some honour and not in total shame.

I got an office where I just go and put together shows, you know.

I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'm learning to let it happen in the moment. American actors are much better at that than British actors....

We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing.

When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

I found the structure of writing a screenplay harder than the structure of writing an essay. But it was definitely challenging to force myself to sit and write. I'm not used to having to force myself...

I don't know if Prince even really paid attention to time. The moment of creativity is the moment, and you go at that moment.

Very little thought goes into making this stuff I make. It is on impulse. I think of colors all day and suddenly if I think of ice blue, I wonder if red or yellow will go with it.

A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

Basically I write songs, and I need for there to be a home for these songs.

When we built Amblin, we even put Murphy beds in there because we thought that was so practical. Why would anybody, if you were working on something, need to go home at night? You'd just stay there,...

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

You have to learn how to write each book.

I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper.

I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

Comedy or villain, the role does not matter as long as it is challenging.

I am not trained to be a director or an actor. I have learnt everything by watching other people work and studying their work.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

Having a sweet, wide-eyed, awkward character is more charming and allows for more range. If you come from anger, you're going to reach a ceiling very quickly.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads of paper and the glitter and all the stuff. She likes to do what she likes to do. I want to do...