Leigh Whannell Quotes

I love creating things that come from my gut and my soul.

You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in the details and make something that feels like it's yours.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

I prefer writing originals.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.

It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

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

I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.