Vanessa Kirby Quotes

You take some creative license when you make a movie, and things can be a little bit different.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

There’s dramatic license, which is necessary or nothing’s fun, and historical truth, which is necessary or nothing’s understood.

That's kind of the fun part about acting. We do get the right to kind of get from A to Z any way we want, as long as we start at A and end at Z.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.

Photography is a pursuit that allows you to be very hands-on with what you show people of either yourself or the art you want to make, and acting is kind of the exact opposite. You do have a modicum of creative freedom as an actor, but you're still very much a cipher for other people's art.

I think comics can be the basis for great films, but I think the focus of such a project should be on making the film as good as possible, not on painstakingly replicating the comic.

I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell, and it's actually been really nice.

If a film is based on a true story and you don't use anyone's name, you can do what you like.

The freedom of poetic license.

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

Life is funny. Life isn’t categorized into comedy, drama, action, is it?So I don’t know why they try to categorize everything. It drives me crazy-why it would have to be just a romantic comedy or…I want to have a little integrity, a little story, you know

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.