Quotes About Creativity

I think it's really hard for filmmakers to adapt books.

You don't go make 'Schizopolis' if you're trying to protect some idea of yourself as a filmmaker.

We make movies to endorse our own personal feelings. I am not, in fact, a documentary filmmaker. I've got my personal beliefs, and I'm ready to put them out on the table.

Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

I feel that the smallness of the filmmaking environment is somehow connected to the freedom of creating film.

With filmmaking in general, I have never absorbed the traditional knowledge of film history or filmmaking. It has always been just pick up the camera and go figure it out.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.

I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.

Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

My favorite thing is to have collectives. Even when it comes to filmmaking as well, filmmaking and music and most art in general, I feel like everyone should have the same say. If you're in a collective, I feel like everyone should have the same say.

For me, it doesn't matter what kind of role I am doing. I just enjoy the process of acting and filmmaking.

A lot of people are trying to get out of their home country and think 'making it' is if you're able to work in another. For me... I'd be quite content to keep doing my own little films down there for the rest of my filmmaking career.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmaking that I did when I first started. Every film brings with it unique challenges and experiences, and I approach every one with the same enthusiasm.

I think filmmaking is a strange animal because it's anti-Democratic and collective at the same time, but I think it's all about not trying to know everything better than everybody else but making the right choices.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.