Leila Slimani Quotes

All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.

For me, making a movie is kind of like vomiting. Not that film is like vomit, but more like this mass of ideas and thoughts that you have and just have to put them out there. It's not even about making perfect sense - it's more about making perfect nonsense. I don't do too much soul-searching or self-analysis. I just enjoy making things.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.

The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.

I like coming up with new characters. Whether it's revamping an old character no one likes or just coming up with brand-new stuff, that's kind of what excited me as an artist.

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

I just create, that's what I do.

I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.

In film, you get the license to try and go for emotions that you normally try to keep away from you.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.

One of the ways that I think about my being an artist and an actor is... it's an experiment.

Whether it's a poem I'm working on or a picture I've snapped, it all has to do with the curiosity I feel without thinking about it.

Sometimes the darker the work, the more fun you can have.