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Does not the very word ‘creative’ mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act – rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life – not death.

It really hasn’t been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We’re not scientists. We don’t always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

I’m going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.