Leigh Whannell Quotes

I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.

I always want off-the-beaten-path, Anthony Bourdain-inspired travel.

I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.

I lived in New York for five years; I've lived in Barcelona, Rome, and Paris at different times. When I was 18, I was dying to live in a city.

The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.

I loved going on the road... I think that's something everybody ought to experience one day - not necessarily as an artist, but just to get out and see the country.

I backpacked around Thailand when I was a university student and have wanted to return ever since.

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

I used to wish I would be a painter or a violinist, where maybe I wouldn't need to travel as much. Or maybe if I were a writer, I wouldn't need to travel as much. It's the travel that kind of killed me. And the hours. I always pictured if I were a painter you could make your own hours maybe... work after the kids were asleep.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

It was in Australia. I started in Cairns and went up to Cape Tribulation, Port Douglas and then went to Fraser Island. It was there that I thought was quite heavenly. I just decided to go back packing somewhere and that's where I picked. It was just before I got the role in Hot Chick. A friend wanted to me to go to Australia and I was thinking my career is just starting, it's not a good time to leave but she told me that my career would always be there and I was only going to get more immersed in it, and she was right. So it was a good time to go.

School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself. I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for.

I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don't want possessions to hold me down.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is that it takes you places you wouldn't ordinarily go, and you don't enter as a tourist, you really enter the life of the place.

Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.