Aaron Huey Quotes

You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

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 was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go through, but it's things people I know or my family is going through, and I hear about it, and I think, 'That sounds like a great song.'

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.

Artists are supposed to stay hungry.

I love directing as I've got such a fantastic, a creative mind.

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.