Barbara Kopple Quotes

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

Inspiration is finding something that excites you.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers - I love it all.

The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk to people and visit interesting places, and don't forget to ask questions. To be a writer you need to drink in the world around you so it's always there in your head.

Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.

I have to have something that really excites me in order to write about it.

My passion is always the same. In fact, with a new adventure, the passion always grows.

I just have a gut feeling about something, if I really want to do it, if I'm excited about it, if I want to explore it. And that goes across all different sorts of genres.

I think what inspires me or what keeps me inspired is my curiosity.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

To me, it's all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.