Vanessa Diffenbaugh Quotes

The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it's not just about their reputation, but I have to really believe in them.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.

Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven't got to try and interpret someone's writing; it's all theirs. I really admire that.

Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be.

I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

Everyday people are not very good designers.

Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

I don't have a style. I've never thought of myself as a stylist like the visual stylists I admire enormously - Adrian Lyne, Ridley Scott, Alan Parker - in which every shot has a great idea in them.

I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.

My brain is a great fashion designer. Unfortunately, I don't have the skills to do it.

I have been constantly working on the interiors of my homes in Delhi, Goa, Dubai, Mumbai, and the Red Chillies Building. I had been designing homes, too. Having a background in art, graphic design, and charcoal helped me in my work immensely.

I've always loved design. I loved imagining the way people could live in a space, that's what I connected to.

Cinema is a creative medium. The director has the right to express.

We're pretty insane about art direction.

In art school, you learn that design is much more than the look and feel of something - it's the whole experience.

In all my films, I have tried a different look.

I love movies where you can tell who's directed it even before the credits roll in, like Wes Anderson or Quentin Tarantino. People who make very stylized types of film.