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Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology. ”
Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process. ”
A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general. ”
My grandfather wanted to remind us that freedom of expression is the fundamental ingredient for democracy, and all the rest is detail. It is the scaffolding around which every other freedom is based. ”
To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.' That what I do is somewhere on the line between speaking to you as I am now and actual song. And the things I love when I say one of those poems to myself - it's a little bit like singing, it's a little bit like speaking. ”
I really used my own imagination a lot and made a number of suggestions during my tenure on 'Star Trek.' ”
I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful. ”
Whoever makes something, having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process... is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something's getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlement over them. ”
The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things. ”
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. ”