Laurie Simmons Quotes

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until they're used up.

If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art.

I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

We've never been satisfied with just making 'me' music. What we're doing is trying to go to a place of some reverence.

Some people get turned on by my work, and it sells, but what drives me is the process of making it.

What is important is satiating my creativity as an artiste.

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

So I don't think being an artist you can ever satisfy - the moment you do get satisfied is the moment you're done, really. I'm actually starting to bug out now, because it's not enough. I get joy and pleasure in the movies out there in the world that people are seeing, but for me, it's about making it. That's why I do it, is to make it, to deal with my life.

No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.

Sometimes my interest in working on a film is not always dictated specifically by the character. Sometimes it's simply about wanting to be a part of a vision that I love, or a script that I love. I find exciting and gratifying.

When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

I like working with directors much, because I want to be able to give myself completely to their vision. Otherwise I would only do what I could do, again and again. I want to be taken by someone in a different direction.

I don't make that decision [what next book will be] until I've read enough to know that I've got something different to say and I know how to say it.

The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by

Because the world of this film begins and ends in the imagination of Tim Burton, you're not seeing a movie that's been shot on locations that you've seen a million times. Because this world has no rules, you're seeing so many different and separate brushstrokes and colors and characterizations somehow getting combined through Tim.

Speaking personally, I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don't want to just collect more fuel.

I love to perform and I love to perform characters, and sometimes when I'm doing television and film, I just feel like I'm making a living. I'm good at it, but I'm not really being artistically challenged.

I was being generous. Gia Coppola wasn't even a filmmaker at that time, but I asked her to do it, because I believed in her as an artist. And because I wanted a woman's take on the material. The book Palo Alto is very male-centric, but Gia carved out a bunch of the female characters, and brought them to the fore in the movie. And the project was richer for it.