Solving them will require a creative shake-up of the old way of doing things.
While most of the week he carried out his liquid diet solo, on Saturday mornings, I had the chance to be his trusted assistant, and we would prepare all kinds of creative shakes together.
I had to keep thinking... My comrade-in-the-arts Michael Delgado and I were sipping martinis when the creative thunderbolt shook the olives in our glasses.
Canismo is a short film that features a few creative canines shaking off all the edible, animal-friendly paint they need to make 19 Pollock-esque masterpieces, documenting the process with stunning slow-motion video and high-speed photography.
Over the road at Holland House (935 West Eastland Avenue, +1 615 262 4190, hollandhousebarandrefuge.com, mains from around $20) a prohibition-style "refuge", the barmen sport tweed waistcoats and shake creative cocktails amid vintage chandeliers and reclaimed furniture.
This creative disruption will shake the established interests, as evidenced by Steven Spielberg recently calling VR movies "dangerous" because viewers can decide "not to take direction from the storytellers".
We also take a look at how the creative class is shaking up Copenhagen; a new hotel that's drawing attention to Australia's Kangaroo Island; and even an unlikely artistic revival in Paducah, Ky.
Still, Hamill's comments appear to confirm that so-called creative differences were shaking up the galaxy far, far away long before the film's release.
Simon Waldman is the author of Creative Disruption: How to Shake Up Your Business in the Digital Age.
For generations, Harlem has been a trove of art, music and fashion inspiration because of its self-sufficient and insulated residents who produce movements like the Harlem Renaissance and the Harlem shake, and creatives like James Van Der Zee and Cam'ron.
Cocteau's Orphée is a famous, wealthy and petulant poet shaken by a creative crisis.
