Marilyn Minter Quotes

I think plays deserve other interpretations. They should live on, and other people should should take their hand at them. I'm very supportive of that.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

Probably 90 percent of the stuff I make has inevitably been done before... Whether it's playing Hamlet, which has been on the go for 400 years, or pieces from the cinematic world that also have been essayed before, I feel released by that.

No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.

A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.

When I wrote 'Noughts and Crosses', I was halfway through it when I realised this was very like 'Romeo and Juliet'... as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it's brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice.

We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

You must be very creative in our business. Creating in this business is making something new, but it is also touching on something old.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

I take references from the past and flip them.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

If it were all in the script, why make the film?

Even if I play a similar role to one I've played before, I will never play it the same, I'll always try to do something different with it.

What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?