Sheila Heti Quotes

I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.

My style is that I have no style.

I'm very open to following the stories that move me and reach that flexibility where you can be more flexible. I'm expanding my horizons.

I don't think I have any set image, and I don't want one. If I think I'm getting a particular image, I try and break it. I find it very important to keep the audience guessing and keep them on their toes.

I've always just followed my own course, whatever I found the most interesting to me at the moment. I've never had a real plan of, "I want to get from here to there, and I've got to do this."

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed to me then something you needn't concern yourself with, it would trap you.

For me, I don't have a grand vision planned or an end goal. I'm just exploring what's given to me at any given moment.

'Enlightened Rogues' we made like the earlier ones: whatever tune came up, whatever direction it went in, that's the way it went. That's what we'll always do. I think if we ever stop doin' that, we ought to quit.

I go with the most interesting thing that comes my way,I don't expect it to come from India to tell you the truth, but if it did, fine by me.

I don't know where I'm gonna be two weeks at a time, much less the thing I'm making. I'm just flattered to get the opportunity to do it and to get asked to do it.

Because of the way that I work with the actors and because a scene is not in this rigid and literal interpretation of something written, I can constantly change stuff, which means I can get a scene absolutely perfect, and then when we go to shoot it, the requirements of the shot mean it would be useful to extend the dialogue or take a line out or swap things around. So the camera doesn't serve the action. The action serves the camera. That's important. So it becomes more and more organic and integrated.

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

I like that you let yourself be surprised

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.

I'm very specific about scripts that I like. I don't have a master plan or, like, a game plan. I don't have a chart that I'm following or anything like that. I'm very much playing it by ear. Certain things just happen and it's undeniable, you just go that way. But I don't have a specific path I'm following, I'm just playing it by ear.

I don't really dig for answers from the producers and writers that much. I let things happen the way they're going to happen.

We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

I never want to feel like the way that I see it isthe only way. Sometimes mistakes happen and that's better than whatyou thought the scene could be. You allow room for the possibilities.

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.

So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself, without sticking to an old self.