Andrew Haigh Quotes

I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

Even if it flops, when you're sitting at the drawing table, you dream about seeing your work on the big screen, no matter what.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.

I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.

If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.

When I was 11 years old, I thought, 'All I really wanna be able to do is my own comic book,' and I'm doing it. I don't have any other real ambitions. I have nothing to conquer at all.

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.

I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.