Quote Tag

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

I feel very strongly when there’s no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

My hand does the work and I don’t have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It’s like a dam in the brain that bursts.

I didn’t get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who’ve inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, , Jodie Foster.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.