Morten Tyldum Quotes

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

Good films that get made are so few and far between. I want to write and direct more, but only so I can keep a fresh perspective.

When Wes has a new a project, you know that it's going to be something as different as the previous was from the previous one. Each time, he tries to take you to a country, or a land that is unknown for you and for him, and reinvent this land. That's what he did with 'Darjeeling,' with 'Mr. Fox,' with 'Moonrise Kingdom.'

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

I don't think anyone really says anything new.

It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

Well, you know, I feel like it's about a lot of things. The reason that I made it was because I thought it was really funny and unique and just a different genre.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

Everyone takes pictures, so you need to have your own opinion.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.