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Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person and it doesn't mean you have to be an actor, a musician, or a painter - but I think if you are in a creative profession or a creative business you do have a heightened awareness.
Sep 30, 2025
I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.
I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most part, publishing people are incredibly creative, business is done based on the strength of relationships, and the product being peddled is books.
In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Life is about trying things to see if they work.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
The best revenge is the massive success.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
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