quotes to run with
a film basically boils down to a conversation between two people
ideas are come to us; we don’t really create an idea, we just catch them, like fish. like a chef preparing fish; no chef takes credit for MAKING the fish, just preparing it.
if all the cool girls are doing X, do Y
All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But it's like there is this gap. For the first couple years that you're making stuff, what you're making isn't so good. It’s not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s not that good.
Ira Glass • THE GAP by Ira Glass
Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
dont cry over spilled milk
Ira Glass on The Creative Process:
youtu.beCreativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no
... See more“what you’re trying to do as a creative person is surprise yourself — find out who you really are, and try not to lie, try to tell the truth all the time” - ray bradbury