Madonna Ciccone Quotes

I get excited by being in the studio and could never get burnt out in there.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

I'm really happy when I'm actively creating things. When I'm frustrated and not excited, it's because I haven't written anything in a month or so.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

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.

When you're in a creative flow with somebody - and I had this back in architecture school - you're just so passionate about what you're doing, and if that other person is just as passionate, you'll be madly in love with them. It's just that thrill of creating.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.

I feel fiery in my life. I feel fiery in my art.

I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.

My creative juices flow seasonally.

We all want to experience that in our lives - a moment when we're two feet off the ground - and making movies gives you that opportunity. It comes and it goes so fast that it's unreal, but it does happen.

I have to have something that really excites me in order to write about it.

That's the worst and best thing about being in the studio, feeling completely lost and not knowing how to put the final touch on something. But once you find it, there's nothing like that feeling.

What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I can't believe I get to do this as a job.'

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

I'm starstruck everyday. The day I'm not starstruck, I'll have to retire.