Creative Drain Quotes

When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're just trashed by the end.

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

Creative people are like a wet towel You wring them out and pick up another one.

The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the powers of supply variable, and the reader, with each one he absorbs, grows a little more sophisticated and harder to please, while the novelist, after each one he writes, becomes a little more exhausted.

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end.

There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.

My spirit had been broken a bit over the years by my having to work on films I didn't love. Hollywood's a surreal place, and it really is an assault on your spirit.

We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

Mythological shows take a lot from you.