Dana Brunetti Quotes

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.

I treat my projects as art.

In every successful still photographic project that I have completed, there has always been a turning point in the story where I felt that perhaps I was working on something that could be very special.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

What most people do is they make terrific films, one in three if you're very lucky, maybe one in five. So you just have to keep on, you have to get through the bad bits.

From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.

Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a period of time that was slow in the photo business, but in essence it was always frustrating because I'd get started, and then it would be time to get back to work and I wouldn't get anywhere with the painting.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.

There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.

I'm a storyteller - that's my chamber, that's my box. I'm always tryin' to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

'The Storms We Share' has been a project that I've been working on for so long.

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.