Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.
At an independent label, you have to figure out inventive ways to promote without spending the money.
For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.
The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.
Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive.
Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.
I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.