BeBe Zahara Benet Quotes

The most important thing as a filmmaker, the hardest journey you'll have, is to find your point of view.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

This is my real concern: to give each film a unique individuality.

The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.

As a viewer myself, I tend to gravitate toward projects that have a really strong voice of a strong creator.

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

You can only write your own vision.

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

It's important for me that anything I lend my stamp to must have a perspective that is uniquely mine.

One of the things that made Bob so unique and wonderful is that he had a genuine style, like Balanchine, like de Mille.

I can tell you that I like to take a character where everyone may have an idea of what it's supposed to look like and go in a completely different direction with it. I like to make it my own and make it very personal to me, which will end up probably looking completely different than someone else's take on it.

Sheryl Crow. I loved her 'Tuesday Night Music Club.' She expressed her own point of view, and she wasn't trying to be like anyone else, and I loved that. That's been the thinking of all my favorite artists.

I think the most important thing is you need to have a very, very clear idea of who you are as an artist before you let other people tell you who you are.

My art in my head just needs to come out for me - for my legacy and who I am.

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Lena Dunham or Miranda July, those people are sort of thinking about their work in a slightly different way than I do, where their whole body is a seed of what they're creating. I can't imagine watching Miranda's movies with anybody else playing her role, she's so integral. But for me, it feels more like every story is really individual. If I thought of something else, or thought it should be my body representing it, I'd fold my body into it. But most of the time I'm writing to get something out of my body.

I think Björk is playing on the fact she knows she's eccentric and she accepts the fact.

For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.