Yves Behar Quotes

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.

Years of my life were lived knowing that I'd get a book out of them one day.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.

I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

Painting completed my life.

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

I've been doing documentaries for about 25 years and want to continue to do that, but I love the idea of working in a different medium. Advertising pushes the envelope creatively, and there is some really great work being done right now, so I'm excited to jump into it.

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

I do believe I was put here to tell stories and be creative in that way. It's given my life so much purpose and meaning, and it's ultimately what I live for.

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.

If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

Being a creative person, I want to feel the highs and the lows.