Marc Platt Quotes

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged.

At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.

It's weird: I don't really know where I pull my inspiration from. I think it's N.E.R.D.

I'm always around creative people, and I'm trying to work on something constantly at all times.

I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.

I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.

I always prefer shooting on locations, because when I'm at home, it's harder to sort of get lost in the world of whatever you're making. It does, it does force this bond and community amongst a group.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.

There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops.

I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or anything, but his spark. What makes it so great for me is that I really don't know. There's a mystery behind Brian, even to me.

To me, the more dialogue amongst creative types, the better. It keeps people on their toes, and competition is healthy.

I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The only explanation I have is all that stuff is coming at you while you're relaxed, so somehow it kicks you into hyperspace in terms of brain function.

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.

The artist is inherently a romantic to some degree, and as such, I believe in a muse. But I don't try to analyze too much where it comes from.

Most creative people fall into one of two categories - either they're task-oriented, or they're time-oriented.

I think it's healthy that people that work in a creative field look for inspiration in a different creative field.

For me, as I was growing up, I studied architecture, I was into music, and I always felt that there was a gap between the things that I loved and consumed and who made them and how they made them.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.