Creative Approaches Quotes

Solving problems should be a joy, a welcome challenge to our creativity.

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

I have always been interested in finding new ways to play and have looked at handball keepers and ice hockey goal-minders. It helps me.

If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.

The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.

There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned in the studio and the public is interested only in the results.

Different directors have different techniques in the use of films. Cronenberg is very different in the way he works with film, and how he takes the audience into his films is different than how Peter Jackson would do that or Jon Stewart. So, if you go between those artists, you shift gears and you kind of fall into the working method of that film.

People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different fields.

You really have to work harder to come up with new ways to play the scenes.