Creative Profession Quotes

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your purse. I'm not the guy who jacks your car. I'm not down with people who steal and hurt others. I'm just a brother who fights back. I'm not some violent closet psycho. I've got a job. I'm an artist.

Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an MBA, and I worked three years in grant management.

I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.

I'm a commercial filmmaker.

I wanted to be a fashion designer.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

I don't direct movies for a living.

The idea that you could make a living from writing always thrilled me.

I believe that if you're an artist, it's like a gift. If you can do this for a living and you can be involved in it, it's something that you can't ignore. It's the chance for you to have a voice and create something from yourself.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

A film maker is a very intelligent man. Do not underestimate him.

I don't watch scripted television, and I finally figured out why. It's my line of work, you know? It's what I do.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

Back in the olden days when we were rubbing sticks together, everybody wanted to have a comic strip, to live in Westport Connecticut, to have a Jaguar and to have a wife and two and a half kids and to have a girl in town in their studio in Manhattan that they'd romance, and then they'd have people ghost their strip. It was like this big dream.

Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

Yeah, you'd be surprised how many well known musicians have regular jobs. And yes, I'm a machinist. That's how I made my guitars - at a machine shop.

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

I work in a creative industry. My work isn't terribly hard, it's artistically explorative, so I have no complaints.

My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.