Michel Hazanavicius Quotes

Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and carry it through to its conclusion, inspiration is the reverse. An idea gets hold of you and carries you where you are intended to go.

The how-to is all about day in, day out finding a way to feed the monster, the drive that lives inside.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

My advice is if you have to do music, then do it! There's no choice in your heart and your soul - unless you have that kind of great need, desire and determination, it's pretty tough out there!

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

Not all ideas are like a twinkling star in the sky, and you get inspired to make a record the next day.

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness.

The ideas choose me, not the other way around.

I think if you're inspired, you don't let a little thing like scheduling and deadlines get in your way.

Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

I always want to remain inspired.

Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.

I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.