Jacques Derrida Quotes

The shorter and the plainer the better.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

One of my favorite colors is no color at all.

I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it.

Minimalism has a connotation of being reductive, and not in the best way. 'Brevetist' is a better term. I'm trying to be as concise as possible and still getting across to the reader. When information is delivered in that way, it is very satisfying to me.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Simple is the only way I can write.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.

I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.

I really like to go for the essence of things - the most beautiful parts of things - of human beings or of music. If there are things in there that are getting in the way and complicating it, it's just not good for me.

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.

Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.

I just like to keep things small and subtle and authentic, and ground everything in reality. So that is something that I feel is my strength as a director and I try to achieve as an actor.

The thing about simplicity is it's not easy to achieve. To many, simplicity can mean repetitiveness and maybe even a lack of intelligence, those kind of things, but simple yet unique is the key.

I just see what's in front of me. That's what I'm happy with.

I do better in life when my world seems a little smaller.

Make subtlety obvious.

The best style is the style you don't notice.

I'm speaking to someone I'm trying to get to fall in love with me. I'm trying to speak intimately to one person. That should be clear. I'm not speaking to an audience. I'm not writing for the podium. I'm just writing, trying to write in a fairly quiet tone to one other reader who is by herself, or himself, and I'm trying to interrupt some silence in their life, which is utterance.

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.