Quotes about "Creativity & Arts"

You should be careful what you choose to see as a role model, whereas inspiration can come from anywhere. ”

I feel like I am an inspiration. That's the word I prefer. I don't believe that I have to be a role model, someone to be emulated. ”

I feel like I pull inspiration from everyone, and I feel like I'm honored and grateful that people feel that they can pull inspiration from me, be inspired by me. But I definitely don't think I'm a role model. I'm not someone to be imitated. ”

Growth is a painful process. ”

You hoop with a certain expression. That's your art. You've crafted it, so it is your art. ”

There's a tendency for people to think that celebrities do whatever they want, spend whatever they want, and it's completely out of control. While some of that may be true, I've never met a celebrity who threw caution to the wind and thought they could do anything. That's not the thought process. ”

I'm accused constantly of having 'no signature.' That's the big artistic demerit. You can't tell a Wyler film from another man's film just by looking at it. ”

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. ”

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected. ”

I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself. ”