Quotes About Inspiration

I have a great interest in classical mythology and I need to make a sphinx or satyr every once in awhile to satisfy those interests. (...)

T. S. Eliot, who remarked in one of his essays that immature poets imitate, mature poets steal).

Why do you like books so much?" he asked. Miles answered without taking his face away from the window. "You never know what you'll learn when you open one. And if it's a story, you sort of fall into it. Then you live there for a while, instead of, you know, living here.

Reach for the stars and even if you miss you will land among the stars

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of the mind.

Roll up your sleeves and work as a bouncer in a sex club or a warden in a lunatic asylum or a machine operator in a slaughterhouse. Drive a taxi for six months and you'll have enough money to make a film. Walk on foot, learn languages and a craft or trade that has nothing to do with cinema. Filmmaking — like great literature — must have experience of life at its foundation. Read Conrad or Hemingway and you can tell how much real life is in those books.

I think you've still got lightning in you.

their spinster amanuensis, the

What we need to do now," he mused, "is make better sci-fi movies so that we can have better contact experiences." That is hermeneutics.

But why is laughter so creative? It reacts to contradiction with delight is why, thus opening the road to new discoveries.

transcendent wonder" described by the poet Tennyson.

Later, Jenny would say she seldom knew what she would take a picture of when she picked up a camera, that she only knew once she peered through the viewfinder, as if the photograph had finally found her.

If the photographer isn't going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just a machine and not an avenue of expression, then he has no business asking anyone for anything, let alone their time and interest. Don't show the world, he said, invent the world.

Walt had done something new, something big, just as he always hoped he would. And it was just the beginning.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

We are all here for a reason.I believe the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people thru the darkness.

Art is long, life is short.

More than weapons, we need a leader.

When David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls he said, "Sights such as these must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight,"' Hector told her softly.

chariots that I would design with

wisdom of the outdoors, until

I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason.

Lo que no está en mi corazón, no lo escribirá mi pluma.

There was no mistaking the expression on her face. I inspired her with the strongest emotions of abhorrence and disgust. Let me not be vain enough to say that no woman had ever looked at me in this manner before. I will only venture on the more modest assertion that no woman had ever let me perceive it yet.