Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'

You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library."

It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.