Woody Allen on Creating

From http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/woody-allen-/3/

Woody Allen: My level of confidence is always high, but it’s unmerited confidence. It’s unearned confidence. I never do any homework whatsoever. I don’t even know in the morning sometimes what scene I’m going to be shooting later that day. I’ve given it  no attention, no thought. I just go to the set, and they give me the stuff that I’m going to shoot, and then I start to look around and  figure out what to do and how to do it. So I feel complete confidence, but that doesn’t mean that I should. I really do kind of flounder  around. I’m not exactly sure what I want-I know more what I don’t want. I know if somebody performs badly or if  something is going to be too heavy-handed or stupid. But what I really want out of the thing, I find out as we go. Sometimes the  actor does something and I think, “Hey, that’s great. That’s much different than I envisioned-and much better. This is a good way to go.”

Sometimes I think game design is like this – especially when its a one-person project. Make something and let yourself be surprised at what you get. And this quote rules:

Woody Allen: There is an inexplicable delight in the act of creating. In the sense that if a guy paints a canvas… You know, I’ve done this sometimes where I’ve gone and bought a lot of paints and just for the fun of it had an orgy of painting. I mean, I can’t paint at all.