Rachel Kushner Quotes

I'm a young correspondent, so sometimes I'm just young. Sometimes I'm just straightforward.

Working with newbies has its own advantages as they're open to ideas and the audience can see the actresses as themselves, devoid of any pre-conceived image from their previous films.

I approach every film as my first film.

Being young and extremely naive and coming from a very sheltered place has been a slight disadvantage to me because in Edinburgh, if you meet someone and they're nice, they just become your friend.

To me, everything is always new. People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

We were so young when we started, quite naive and shy - we kind of knew what we were doing but didn't because we hadn't been stage schooled.

I may be inexperienced, but at least I come with a clean heart and a clean slate.

I approach every film like it's my debut.

Deeper' feels like we did when we made the first few albums. It's got that excitement. It felt like a voyage of discovery.

Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of an innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise. ... Each piece seems to have a life of its own. Every little piece or every big piece that I make becomes a very living thing to me, very living. I could make a million pieces; the next piece gives me a whole new thing. It is a new center. Life is total at that particular time. And that's why it's right. That reaffirms my life.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if you're a child.

There's actually a disdain for the conversation about audience in the art world. Artist to artist, if you say, "What do you think about audience?" they would probably say, "I don't think about audience, I only think about my work," yet the audience is such an important part.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

I recommend it to all people: Get down on the floor and look at the world from where the child looks at it.

People say, "I can't take you seriously because you're so young." But I think when you're young, what you feel is more pure.

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

You lose your sense of wonder the more you learn, right? When you go to film school and learn about moviemaking, you go to see movies and then only see where the lights are, where the cuts are, watching it from a technical basis, nodding your head, "Oh, that was good." The feeling of surprise, the feeling of being transported is further away.

I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.

There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and getting through a smattering of surface representation with no meaning.

It feels amazing to be back on set. It feels like home, even though the territory is a little bit unfamiliar because it's a new show, it's a new character, but once you get in the groove and you start to settle in and trust the moment, you start to really feel at home.