Chester Brown Quotes

You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if it's nothing but a boring writing exercise for you.

I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing.

'Thou shalt not bore' is a commandment that should be at the centre of our ambitions.

If we don't know who is who because everyone is behaving the same then it's boring. We don't think it's boring because we love tennis. But bring someone who doesn't love tennis and they will think it's incredibly boring.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore.

You can't connect with something you're not passionate about.

I've been offered a couple of shows that have been very successful, but they weren't right for me. It has to be something I could be excited about for a long time.

If I'm excited about it, I'm pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I'm bored with an idea, you can bet they're going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I'm fairly excited about.

When I look for the next project, it's always about, 'Is it going to push me out of my comfort zone? Am I doing something different? Am I working with people who are passionate about what they're doing?' At the end of the day, if I'm going to be bored on set, then I'm not gonna be happy.

I choose questions to work on according to how much they excite me.

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

It's the best thing, when you are in a creative space, discovering something and being enamored with it and excited by it.

The podcasts that keep my attention are those where I can feel the hosts and guests are enjoying themselves or are really passionate about the subject matter.

For me, it's always been one of my pet peeves to keep people engaged and talking, and just always being interested in what I have going on. To keep the level of creativity always turned up to the max.

I don't worry about running myself ragged. I worry about being bored.

I enjoy gastronomy, music, and fashion, so I'll end up involved in one of those three areas - or all three! They're things I have a passion for, and I only do what I'm passionate about.

If people are anything but enthusiastic about the information or ideas that they're sharing, they're either not that invested in what they're doing - or they're not communicating that investment effectively.

I don't get competitive, really. So I don't know. If I'm excited about something, hopefully someone will think, "Oh right, you should do this." And that's great. I'm not being very articulate about this. I just don't want to do stuff if I'm going to feel bummed out and uninspired.

Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.

You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.

The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.

People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in.