A cautious creative is an oxymoron.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there’s no such thing as a Cautious Creative.

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

The more creative you are the more trouble you're in. You have to be courageous!

Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.

Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

My mind couldn't fit itself around the shape of his absence.

Accept the things To which fate binds you and Love the people with whom fate Brings you together But do so with all your heart.

It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

I feel that there's a certain danger in always being in a lovely rural setting. You can lose touch.

Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.

I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he was shooting it that this was going to be an affective movie to say the least.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.