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创造
Creation
My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.
我在屏幕上最喜欢的时刻是当你真的在那里,你知道你在创造一些东西的时候。这是如此令人兴奋……这就是你来工作的原因。
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
提出新的问题,新的可能性,从新的角度看待老问题,需要创造性的想象力,标志着科学的真正进步。
A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.
剧本不是一个成品;一本小说。剧本是某种东西的蓝图——对于一栋很可能永远不会建成的建筑。
The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
我喜欢开始一个新项目的方式是做一首封面歌曲,并尝试一下,最好是一首与房间里的人无关的歌。
What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test.
我们在不让一个孩子掉队的情况下所做的就是把创造力挤出教室,因为老师们已经开始为了考试而教学了。
I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.
我了解到,在创造优秀广告的所有影响因素中,猜测老板或客户想要什么是最让人泄气的。
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
最具创造性的工作是人们把过去的想法和灵感传递到未来的过程,并在这个过程中加入他们自己的创造力。
When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.
当你强迫自己不要回到从前,你会想出一些不同的东西,或者你会找到一些不同的歌曲。
I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.
我想我对悲伤感兴趣,这与沮丧或绝望有很大的不同。悲伤与世界同在;它允许创造性。
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
绘画对我来说既不是装饰性的娱乐,也不是塑料的创造;它必须是每一次:发明、发现、启示。
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
一个人施加的约束越多,他就越能解放自己。而约束的任意性仅用于获得执行的精度。
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.
我写的方式,你可能安排鲜花。并不是每一次尝试都能成功,但每一次尝试都会引发另一次尝试。每一个约束,甚至是单调,都会释放出一个新的设计。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
写诗的冲动就像发痒一样。当痒得够烦人的时候,你就挠它。
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
有创造力的人有能力将自己从社会压力的网中解放出来,而我们其他人则被困在其中。他能够质疑我们其他人接受的假设。
In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.
为了有创造力,你必须允许自己失败。
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
动力的一个非常重要的方面是愿意停下来,去看那些别人懒得看的东西。这种简单的专注于通常被认为是理所当然的事情的过程是创造力的强大源泉。
If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then that's when you can really strike an incredible balance.
如果你试图创造一些人们喜欢的东西,而且碰巧是用一种负责任的方式做出来的,那么你就真的可以达到一种令人难以置信的平衡。
Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.
人类是创造者,把强有力的形象抛入同胞的脑海。所有这些图像都是由微小的思想粒子构成的。