Mae Whitman Quotes

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

I must say, to my great surprise and pleasure, I deeply loved making movies in the United States because of all the opportunities it gave me to work with people that I admire as artists.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

I enjoyed directing, and I really found that it was a great new field to try my hand in.

Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do.

Even if a kid doesn't go into acting or the arts like I did, some kids need that environment to find themselves and find what they love to do.

It's very important to me to understand myself and my place in the world. My films help me with that, and the more people see them, the more I am making a statement.

People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because I didn't know.

I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The real me is something else.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

I remember on my very first film, which Steven Soderberg executive-produced, he said, 'Try not to repeat yourself. Do things that scare you.' Even if it's a challenge, I want people to say that this guy tried this thing. Hopefully he learned from it.

New York is the opposite of East Germany, the crown of individuality. That's why I can work well here and find out what I personally think of the pieces I'm learning. I can lay aside all the baggage of German education. In any case, whatever I do, I can't lose it altogether.

Everyone has doors in the living room of their lives that they assume are locked. Doors that lead to artistic expression. People say "I have no talent -- I can't dance or sing or paint or write poetry or play an instrument." More often than not the doors are not locked, just closed. One may turn the handle, open the door and pass through into a larger life space.