Creative Conflicts Quotes

I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending.

This is one of my lesser moments, and one I'm not proud to admit to, but there's always a time I feel the need to have control over the process and try to defend the song from the person I'm writing with. It never, ever helps and always causes problems.

I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts.

When I came off the Halloween movies, they were very stressful movies to make. That had been four very stressful years. I'm happy with how they turned out, but getting the end results took so much fighting with people and so much craziness, that at the end of it I was so burnt out.

A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.

After three albums, you should shoot your producer

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.

I've had situations before where there are more people giving notes than there are writers on the show.

When you're a creative person and you create art with other people, whether you're married to them or not, you're going to run into creative conflicts. If you're a couple, certain inhibitions and barriers are gone. I have those barriers with other people, but I don't have them with my wife.

With 'Kidnapped,' there didn't seem to be a sure hand guiding it: everything had to be run-up-the-pole, so to speak, and there seemed to be a large committee, every day fighting about what the show was about.

Creative differences are legendary in this movie business, so we're really not exploring the creative-difference aspect as opposed to the money aspect, or the fact that something can come up in a movie and literally put the whole movie on the line, and this is where producers have to earn their keep.

Having a writer in the family is a curse - for the family. I do feel more or less guilty when I'm writing.