Isabelle Adjani Quotes

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

I just want to work on things that move me.

It's really about the work - if you are doing it for the right reasons - really to illuminate the human condition.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

The only reason why you should do a film is because it creatively carbonates you and gets you going. If you're doing it for any other reason, you've lost sight of why you're acting in the first place.

I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me; I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually.

I am trying to be guided by my passion.

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.

Your passions are a bit like your fingerprints: Everybody has them; everybody's are different. One's passions may just be a guidebook to one's life.

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

There's nothing ever monetarily or fame-seeking or any of the other motivations that sometimes go hand-in-hand with this profession. To me, it's just not like that. I'm on a journey of self-discovery and trying to avoid total existential crisis. That's the kind of operating zone that I'm approaching this business from.

Folks should find what really inspires them; they should always pursue what they want to do.

My ambition was never to make a lot of money. It wasn't to travel around the world. I was really just struggling to make the best pictures I could make.

Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.

Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process.