Michelle Monaghan Quotes

Designing was an effortless exercise and something I always enjoyed.

Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.

All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.

I have a visual imagination.

When I make music, it's a very visual thing. Conjures up a lot of images.

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

We all learn every day, and that's the magic about film making.

Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.

I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.

I get lost in my right brain, especially in creative things.

Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

I'm anxious to make another film.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.