Samantha Bee Quotes

The most important thing as a filmmaker, the hardest journey you'll have, is to find your point of view.

The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

I never set out to make a movie that was everything to everybody; if that were the case, we could all just take a picture of a tree and agree that the tree is beautiful and move on with our lives. I wouldn't even need to show up.

When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.

Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality.

When you are pursuing art, it is critical to develop something signature. There are plenty of people who are followers, but it is absolutely necessary to have something that sets you apart.

The most important thing is to have a point of view and have something to say. That is important if you are filmmaker or artist. That means you have to experience the world.

The artist is a combination of what's happened to them in their lives and how it's filtered through the way they think. That's what makes me different than Samantha Brown or Anthony Bourdain.

You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic.

This is my real concern: to give each film a unique individuality.

I actually think it doesn't even matter what age you are or what sex - though that does play into it sometimes - you always have to fight in any kind of creative world because nobody knows your own brain and your own creative ideas better than you do.

The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.

I have a particular taste, I do films according to it and promote it accordingly.