Thomas Ian Nicholas Quotes

Life is made up of compromises.

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.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

Everyday is a compromise.

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

I don't want the bottom, so I have to sacrifice the top.

Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you.

In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.

The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.

I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's like a kid's toy that you push and tug around the room. It's fun, it's bright, it's pretty and maybe it'll go clack-clack or whiz-whiz, whatever it happens to do. I like to make believe.