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Something I've learned is that it actually takes a lot of work to make something great.

When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple.

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.