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There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything.

Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it's very hard to make things feel real and lived in.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.