Whit Stillman Quotes

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.

People always ask what my inspiration is, and it's never something that's easily explained.

I use my haters as my motivators.

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

You can't rush inspiration.

Every job I take, within minutes I'm thinking, 'I can't do this.' I think it's what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. It's what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.

My goal is not necessarily to be an inspiration. I think, if anything, I want to continue to be inspired and to continue to grow as a person.

My best songs come from a place outside myself.

From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don't like.

I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.

People criticising does spur you on. You are always going to get critics.

Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

I don't mind failing, because I see it as an opportunity to try again and eventually succeed. Having this attitude and sharing it with young girls encourages them.

If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.

I'm a fairly mature woman, and I've realised that I'm not going to grow if I keep thinking, 'The other heroine in the film is so much better than me.' I would rather take inspiration from them.

Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.

For me, Surya's 'Varanam Ayiram' is a big inspiration.

I like looking at the negative stuff. Because it fuels me. It lights a fire that's going to be burning for a long time.

My mentality is still the same. I have to continue to get better.

I speak to people who have coached me down the years who tell me to look at how far I've come and to just keep going, there will be light at the end of the tunnel.

I always write about something that moves me.

We have to take the good with the bad.

It's one of those things that I use everything that I go through... to be better. I use it all to just fuel the fire, to grow and learn from.

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.