Creative Competition Quotes

British drama can compete with America creatively. But the two systems are very different.

The only way you survive on all these services is if you're groundbreaking. There's pressure to be groundbreaking, which is the greatest thing that's ever happened. It's a bizarre aspect of what's happened with all of these subscription services is everyone is trying to outdo each other by doing great things.

Normally sports day is once a year for kids, where you have fun, and everybody is jostling. For us, making movies is like having sports day everyday: competing with each other, doing your best. It's like that except we don't get awards every day in our sports day.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

The movie industry is very competitive, and if you're like me and you suffer from your own insecurities about whether or not you're any good, that can be troubling.

I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.

I was chosen over British and French choreographers to work on 'Bombay Dreams.'

I like L.A., but it's just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective.

It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar.

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.

With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.

All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That's what makes good art.

I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years.

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

When you work in a creative environment, people get protective about their ideas. Sometimes it's justified; sometimes it's about ego.

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up.

I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.

I always thought competition was for horse races and it never belonged in art. I never felt that competitive with other girl singers, really.

The idea of competition, particularly in a creative atmosphere, is always there. And, if you don't acknowledge that, you are doing yourself and the process a disservice.

In the music industry, there's often a lot of egos and people aren't always very supportive, but we cheer each other on and we push each other to be better.