Paul Auster Quotes

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

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.

I just want to make a beautiful film. I've had it in my head for so long, so I want to try. Every now and again I get scared. And that's not really how I operate in songwriting or as Sia the artist, the singer. I don't operate from a place of fear. But this is such a new area for me. I still have some insecurity. So, like, once a week I get washed from the top of my skull down to my toes with this vomitous feeling of fear. I think, "Just don't do it. You don't have to do it. You're already a singer and a songwriter. Really, you don't have to make a movie.".

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

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.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

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

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.

I always loved the creative process, from 'Shakespeare in Love' to 'Finding Neverland' to 'Basquiat'; whether it's serious, or it's comedic, whether it's the 'inside look' at that, it seems to be a theme of what I do.

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

I am definitely going to continue directing, but I am always going to try to explore new ways of making films. It really is possible to make films in different ways.

I had some great times doing competitions, but I have always been more into making movies because making movies is more about art and expressing yourself in a creative way.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.