Creative Overload Quotes

When I do comedy, my brain sort of locks up in the infinite possibilities. That's where I get sort of lost. I think, "Oh, there are six other jokes that we could say here!" I feel more at home with drama.

I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.

For me it's just, I have too many ideas, man. It's a problem, actually.

I think we really almost burnt ourselves out on one record.

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

I have too many ideas for a lifetime.

I just don't think it's good to be around too much creative energy other than your own.

You can only be independently creative for so long until your brain burns out.

Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.

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.

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.

As creators, we feel constant demand for innovation from the world. This puts immense pressure on the creative process and oftentimes can have a dampening effect.

I don't want to be seen in every second film. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh no, she's in this one too.'

Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius would overstock the world, and the mind would be completely bewildered in the endless mazes of literature.

When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.

Research suggests that someone who is constantly drawing on their creative abilities can, on average, be productive for no more than six hours a day.

At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.