Quotes About Inspiration

La estampa del viajero en motocicleta es siempre la de un jinete de paso con la que los críos sueñan.

lector, si estás ahí, sueña y vive para hacer realidad tus sueños aunque sea por unos pocos instantes de ilusa ensoñación porque entonces conocerás el sabor de la verdadera vida.

If he [Arthur, number thirteen] had to die, he decided he would die singing. And doing what he knew now was his destiny: to sing to the lonely comfort the frightened, and awaken the love in sleeping hearts

tradition is the guru, the person who turns darkness (gu) into light (ru). The guru, in other words, is a teacher.

We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.

I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do.

I often begin movies with music in my head it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

Right from the beginning, I've always gone to stories when I feel that I can tell them in a special way, that they're mine, that they won't let me go.

When we show up to make art, we need to get still enough to hear what wants to be expressed though us, and then we need to step out of the way and let it. We must be willing to abide in a space of not knowing before we can settle into knowing.

I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.

After passionately nursing this idea for about an hour, I suddenly had another idea: no I wouldn't. Of course I wouldn't make an entire city out of cereal boxes in the basement. The moment I had this second thought, I knew this was the real one.

There was no apology in her eyes, no love or caring. But she saw me, I existed, and this lifted the beams off my shoulders. It takes so little.

When I said "a lot of work," I moved my hands apart to represent all the work. He stared at the space between my palms and asked if I played the accordion. I could feel the accordion between my hands and how impressed he would be if I said yes.

I wanted to be the kind of teacher who learned from her students.

I have to do it to day. It's the first day of the rest of my life. Oh. I had a day like that last week. Really? What happened? I woke up and thought, This is the first day of the rest of my life. Then what happened? I drove to work. Oh.

I'm trying to be brave 'cause when I'm brave other people feel brave but I feel like my heart is caving in.

A neighbor with a green thumb and no yard. That's all. Would this be the first of many awakenings?

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes - just to uphold a good image.

I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

Erau frumo?i (ochii Irinei n.m.) nu cum ai spune: o floare e frumoas?, sau: un copil e frumos, ci cum spui: e frumos c? exist? flori sau copii.

Iubim femeile pentru c? pentru ele se scriu trei sferturi din poezia ÅŸi proza lumii. Pentru c? sunt femei, pentru c? nu sunt b?rbaÅ£i, nici altceva. Pentru c? din ele-am ieÅŸit ÅŸi-n ele ne-ntoarcem, ÅŸi mintea noastr? se roteÅŸte ca o planet? greoaie, mereu ÅŸi mereu, numai în jurul lor.