Adrian Tomine Quotes

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.

I have maintained a low profile throughout my career but have always done things in my own unique way, be it dancing or dressing up. On the dance floor, I had my own unique steps and often had to lead my choreographer.

I think as a director you have to make it your own. It'd be a mistake to approach a project with the idea of 'I'm going to do this the way I think somebody else would,' because then you'd never be clear on your idea.

Everything I do - if I do it, is going to be personal.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

When I work alone, and I'm in my studio, and I'm playing a lot of the stuff myself, I think the style of it becomes something a little different.

My production company, what we are trying to do is I'm trying to create content that speaks to me, and it's not one color. It's not one size fits all.

Honestly, I never felt like I wasn't an artist on my own. I always felt like the music I made was mine, whether it was part of a collaboration with people.

This is my real concern: to give each film a unique individuality.

No one's telling Tarantino what to do. You might like it or you might not like it, but the reality is he's getting his own vision out there.

When I watch a show, I want to feel like it is coming out of someone's head, not out of a boardroom.

I always say that I'm a filmmaker, not a factory. I don't have to churn out films every six months.

You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.

I live in my own bubble. I was looking for an audience that wouldn't necessarily be looking for escapism when they came to my comics.

Everything I do with BLK DNM is more personal than anything I have done before. I've worked hard to go deeper in my true intuition, and therefore I am definitely more pure in my personal taste than ever.

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt.

Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.

I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.