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

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

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.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

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.

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...

Cleanliness is the scourge of art.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong....

If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give...

Each season I strive to design a forward - thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.