Creative Apathy Quotes

Many artists give up after a while.

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.

Most of the time, I don't even watch what I do on TV. I go in, get the job done, and just know it's nothing. It's a job. Sometimes, I try something different, and I'll watch out of curiosity. Generally, I don't watch too much of what I do. Movies are basically the same, except it's more money spent on sets.

I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try to do is kind of do it like 'House'; write down the symptom and write down the other symptoms. Try to work backwards to figure out what the problem is.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.

For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.

It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time.

I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.

In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.'

The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfortable and don't give a damn about what goes up on the screen so long as it gets by at the box office. How can you expect people with that kind of attitude to make the kind of great pictures that the world will want to see?

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.