Ferran Adria Quotes

There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic actor, which is OK, but I can go to New York and I do something that's very emotional. It would be lovely at some point to do something like that on film.

As actors you don't want to have one label. You'd rather have seven.

This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.

You must want! You have the right to ask! You must desire.

I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature.

I just don't like to get intimate. I don't want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if they can't get some kind of an idea of what sort of person I am through my music, then that's too bad.

I think I would rather want to create something new, but I really did enjoy doing that show. It was a really fun show to do.

This is America. We're allowed to draw whatever we want.

I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to.

I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open.

I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

How could you be nervous about asking me to marry you, Bones? I'd die for you. Why wouldn't I want to live for you as well?

I'm proud of the fact that I'm at a point in my career that if I want to take a little bit of a left turn and make an album that is more hushed, more acoustic and more personal, that I can do it.

I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say words. So they all love that because they're playing. It's called playacting. Their contributions are not only welcomed, but are accepted and used.

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

I love film, very, very much, and I always want to go back to it.

I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.

I'm not putting pressure on myself, all I know is I want to do music.

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

The ideal life is you don't sell a single magazine, nobody's interested, but they want to come see your movie. Because that gives you true freedom.

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.