I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.
I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music.
The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.
Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.
One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.
People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
My head is full of shifting patterns and polyrhythmic stuff; but I want to use all acoustic instruments and create this kind of tapestry of interlocking lulling parts.
FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and ...
When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It creates an important form of insurance.
With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.
One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
