“Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.” DifferentShowsInterestingSituationRolesCreatingInteresting Things Author:Bebe Neuwirth
“I'm not a director that's about precision and control and perfection, I'm about creating an atmosphere that's organic and interesting and then letting people loose, and for that there's no greater actor or performer than children. Animals are maybe a close runner-up.” PeopleChildrenActorsAnimalInterestingGreaterDirectorsCreatingPerfectionAtmospherePerformersRunnersPrecisionRunner Up Author:David Gordon Green
“I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.” ThinkingWritingKindCharacterArtistInterestingCreatingOppositesCleanActivismContradictionActivistOddsPalateCreating Characters Author:Eve Ensler
“I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write by hand, because I'm trying to achieve a kind of thoughtless state, or an unconscious instinctive state. I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.” WayWantWritingTryingFirstsKindStatesHandsSeemsReadingInterestingFictionStepsAchieveMaterialsComputerCreatingMessUnconsciousMost InterestingNon Fiction Author:Jennifer Egan
“The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.” PlayStoriesRunningUniverseInterestingSeeingConditionsStageCreatingCastsTinyExperimentsLaboratoryTheatricalImposing Author:Marcus du Sautoy
“I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and moments of splendor.” ThinkingMomentsSidesInterestingWonderMagicCreatingPracticalsMost InterestingInteresting ThingsSplendorAutomation Author:Genevieve Bell
“The rush of creating sounds and mixing sounds is always an interesting challenge, especially for someone like me, who doesn't know about sound.” KnowsSoundChallengesInterestingCreatingLike MeMixing Author:Hank Williams III
“I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.” ThinkingLongCharacterStoriesShowsMovingActorsInterestingHalfWatchesCreativeWonderfulTelevisionPeriodsDirectorsCreatingIncrediblesStorytellingMediumsObsessedTelevision ShowsTelling StoriesLong Periods Of TimeInteresting Places Author:Elijah Wood
“I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.” PeopleThinkingIdeasWalksInterestingCreatingMusic IsVery InterestingSoundtracks Author:Brian Eno
“I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.” ThinkingHas BeensPastEnjoyInterestingGoneStrangePeriodsCreatingPhotographAtmosphereFascinatingSlipsSurrealMost InterestingAmbience Author:Kate Atkinson
“Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.” NeedsDoeFactsInterestingCreatingResearchFakeHaphazard Author:John Hodgman
“Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.” InterestingMagicExampleCreatingMetaphorProse Author:Francesca Lia Block
“The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and that's another advice I would give to writers.” GivingLooksCharacterDifficultInterestingAdviceEasierCreatingCreating Characters Author:Jackie Collins
“The challenge is creating a character that's rich and interesting to warrant following for a number of years.” YearsCharacterChallengesInterestingNumbersRichCreatingFollowingWarrants Author:Frank Spotnitz
“It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.” PeopleFeelsMy OwnInterestingPathGrowingCreatingUniquePerformers Author:Jackie Evancho
“Unless somebody's actually creating something and doing something spontaneous I wouldn't find it at all interesting, to watch or to create, so, I'm trying to make my solo shows something different altogether.” TryingDifferentShowsInterestingWatchesCreatingSoloSpontaneousCreating Something Author:Thighpaulsandra
“Working with the computer gives rise to many opportunities to transcend asocial behavior, because it produces exciting and visually interesting things to share, whether it's by creating video games, computer art or sharing exciting Web sites.” GivingArtOpportunityGamesInterestingShareProduceBehaviorComputerCreatingExcitingVideoSiteInteresting Things Author:Seymour Papert
“When you make a film, you're creating the illusion of a natural experience. But everything is created on purpose. If I want you to be scared, I'm trying to scare you. If I want you to cry, I'm trying to make you sad. If I want you to laugh, I'm trying make you laugh. So, how I get you there is what makes it interesting, because I also want it to feel seamless, and not forced. That kind of constant experimentation is just fun to explore, and I love it.” IfsWantFeelsTryingKindFilmPurposeFunNaturalInterestingLaughingCryCreatingIllusionConstantScaredScareI Want YouExperimentationMake You LaughSeamless Author:Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
“Skyline is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of creating a new take at how life from other planets come and plan to invade Earth.” LooksEarthJobsFilmInterestingPlansPlanetsCreatingAliensGenreInvasionAlien InvasionSkylinesAmazing Job Author:Eric Balfour
“When I started acting, I had a really strong discipline of knowing that you had to be on time, knowing that you had to work 12 to 16 hours a day, knowing you had to be prepared, knowing you had to be ready, and it's very interesting because if you're an artist and you're creating, you can work very, very long hours but as you're putting out that love of creation, it's almost like you're charged by it, you're charged by the process of it.” IfsLongArtistStrongProcessHoursInterestingActingKnowingCreationReadyLike YouDisciplineCreatingPreparedBe PreparedVery InterestingLong Hours Author:Jaime King
“As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in this world, but I'd shake up the mix considerably. And about the same time that the memoir was becoming the dominant popular literary form in the mid to late 90s, I started reading writers who were deliberately playing with the notion of "truth" and "fiction" - that struck me as a much more interesting way to tell certain stories, particularly in the realm of comedy.” PeopleWorldWayStoriesFormCertainReadingInterestingFictionComedyThis WorldBecomingLateCreatingNotionMemoirRealmsShakesDominantInteresting Ways Author:Kevin Keck
“[Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.” PeopleIfsThinkingCareFunEnjoyUnderstandingHoursInterestingMistakeProductsSkillsCreatingPartnersGatesImmuneGet AheadImmune SystemNew ProductsPeople Skills Author:Bill Gates
“I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.” PeopleWayLongStillsInterestingCreatingFascinatedEightyInteresting Ways Author:Steven Morrissey
“I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.” IfsThinkingHumansHuman BeingsInterestingPeriodsCreatingDesperateIngredientsDesperation Author:Jim Carrey