Platon Quotes

I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.

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.

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've always loved travelling around. A book in my back pocket, a diary, and a pen is all I need to call any place home.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

I love it when a director says, 'I don't know.'

I've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the moment.

I just sort of do what comes natural.

Don't think too much. The best pictures come naturally.

Trust what you see and go play.

I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.

Less rules, more intuition.

One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.

You get further if you let your mind run free and do whatever you fancy at that particular time. I don't agree with planning far ahead and saying, 'this week I'm doing this, that week I'm doing that.'

I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have confidence that you have a clear direction to take, you always have confidence to explore other ways; if they prove to be mere digressions, you'll recognize that and make the necessary revisions.

I know Charlie Kaufman really well, for instance. Charlie Kaufman starts a story, and he has no freaking idea where he's going. None. Zero. And he doesn't want to know, because there's a little bit of death in that.

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

I follow my interests pretty - I don't like the word 'intuitively.' I follow them in a kind of natural way, without questioning them too much.