Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.
Spike JonzeRead
You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.
Interpretation
Create your own narrative and accept others' interpretations.
This quote emphasizes the power of self-expression in art and film, suggesting that creators should focus on conveying their own vision and allow audiences to interpret it in their own ways. It highlights the subjective nature of art, where personal meaning can vary greatly from viewer to viewer.
In practice
During a film festival discussion, you could say this quote to emphasize the importance of personal expression in filmmaking.
Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.
If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.
Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.
I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.
I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.
When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.
A picture is a poem without words
Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
The art is long, life is short
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