I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.
Interpretation
The quote conveys the importance of maintaining a sense of spontaneity and authenticity in oneβs work.
Catherine Deneuve expresses her desire to remain connected to the raw and creative aspects of her art by avoiding the pitfalls of familiarity and predictability. She suggests that a mechanical or overly analytical approach to her craft could strip away the emotional resonance and vibrancy that make it meaningful.
In practice
In a discussion on creativity in art school, this quote can inspire students to embrace their unique processes.
I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact, it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath, there is a hidden theme.
I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.
If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree,_x000D_ _x000D_ then it better not come at all.
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with people, comes your ideology, comes your hate, comes your love - all together in this fraction of a second, it materializes there.
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