It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Every artist has limits. No one can do everything. It's impossible.
The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.
I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.
Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such.
Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
Art should never be held above our decency to each other.
As a songwriter or artist, there's only so many ways you can say, 'I love you' or 'I think you're beautiful.'
A painting can't be everything. You have to stop, at some point. It has to be finished, if you want anyone to see it. Some people just continue to work on things, forever. I don't know which is better.
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.
There's definitely a fine line between tasteful and tasteless, and as a stylist, it's a line you want to ride very carefully.
Indian cinema has completed 100 years. How many new stories can you bring every time? It's not possible.
There are very funny people who aren't good at Twitter and people who are really good on Twitter where that's the best or the only thing they do. There are some people I know that don't write creatively outside of Twitter, but they're so good at Twitter.
