I'll AUDITION for something and then the feedback has been, 'The director WANTS you, the creative people want you, but the studio is SAYING no.' It's depressing, but I understand. People are investing a lot of money and they want somewhat of a GUARANTEE; they want someone who's been on the cover of magazines.

And UNLESS you have that sense of being CREATIVE, people think you're just WORKING all the time.

Without sounding PRETENTIOUS, it's nice to ALWAYS be SURROUNDED by creative people who inspire me and keep my LEVELS of creativity charged.

If the RULES of CREATIVITY are the norm for a company, CREATIVE people will be the norm.

It is HARD for 2 creative PEOPLE to work together for that LENGTH of time and not FALL out.

Any time you get to work with CREATIVE people - ANIMATORS, actors, directors and PRODUCERS, all of this - it helps to refine what tools you'll need moving FORWARD.

I FEEL that my JOB is to create an ATMOSPHERE where creative people can do their BEST WORK.

The way creative PEOPLE live is DIFFERENT from people who don't do ANYTHING creative.

I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody LIKE the great PRODUCER Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both CAMPS: He UNDERSTOOD US creative people. And he understood the money people.

I understand why creative people like DARK, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not RESPOND to NERVOUS breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their CHARACTERS to be a part of the ACTION. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.

Record companies don't THINK creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative PEOPLE. Nobody's looking at the future of music because they're concentrating so hard on what they can get from it RIGHT this second. It's REALLY hard to see an artist; it's a lot EASIER to see money.

Teenagers are some of the most PASSIONATE, dynamic and CREATIVE PEOPLE I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and SOMETIMES FADE entirely.

Marc Jacobs is FULL of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the DOOR, a name that has EXISTED for many YEARS but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.

I tend to gravitate toward PEOPLE who are a bit more eccentric and creative and ARTISTIC in some WAYS. And I like bringing disparate KINDS of creative people together to create some great work, even to share POINTS of view on a new direction.