Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I have the space and liberty to create.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you’ve got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky’s the limit.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

We must use time creatively.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

There’s many a man has more hair than wit.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

I want to be an artist, not… a celluloid aphrodisiac.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can’t make music.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

No great thing is created suddenly.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.