You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

When I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

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

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

I’m a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don’t agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

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

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

If I weren’t performing, I’d be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone’s problems – like a beauty therapist!

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Although I write screenplays, I don’t think I’m a very good writer.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it’s not you going through it.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

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.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.