Virginia Postrel Quotes

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

Creativity is our North Star. This way of working and this speed, this new opening and innovation, putting everything in discussion must remain at the base of what we do.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

I'm always looking to make something that didn't exist before, fumbling about in the dark, not just while making a collection. The search for something new is a constant in my everyday life. But constantly searching for something new is like looking for a well in a desert.

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

Never compete, create.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you'd never get on your own. It's like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn't have children without a partner; it was a way of mixing up the genes so you'd get a more interesting product.

Imagination decides everything.

If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song gets momentum and gets away from you, that's a good sign.

If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.

I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.

I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it's launched, I don't intervene at all.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

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.

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.