Robert Schwentke Quotes

That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.

Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

Contemporarily, we struggle with people worried about representation sometimes. It's a burden, as artists, that we take on that limits the work. It limits the characters people play. It limits the roles they want to do.

It's not that I don't want to do different films. The non-mainstream stuff that I did started to get successful... But for an industry which runs essentially on money, they do put you in a box.

I would love to write a script, for sure. I write poetry and songs. But writing a script needs a lot of time and discipline.

In a fantasy show, you can't be random with creative ideas. So that is a drawback for our industry. Since it is daily, with fantasy shows, you need to stick to the script. If you don't, it will become saas-bahu show.

One of the problems we had was trying to live up to this bubbly image. All the music was supposed to be bubbly. That's what people expected from us. But that was very limiting.

A unique style comes from not being able to do things in a conventional manner. If David Byrne could have sung like Paul McCartney, he would have.

I will never write fiction.

It probably would be impossible for me to make music and not make it sound like Burzum. This is the music I make and the only music I am able to make, so I have no other options musically.

All artists are redundant about their own style; they can't escape themselves.

I seem to be constantly confronted by theater professionals who are more or less annoyed by the prospect of structure.

I like all kinds of films; 'Bommarillu' is a favourite film. But I can't make that kind of film.

Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'

...I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

I don't know, just scripts randomly appeal to me. I'm not looking specifically at any genre.

Designers are more like artistic directors now. Before, there wasn't this idea of supervising the artistic direction of the entire house. The old way was to think you could be this couturier or designer or stylist.

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

You're looking for the best way of shooting it, but sometimes the best way of shooting it is changing the script.

Films that rely on their cast to be funny are often episodic and feel like a series of loosely connected sketches rather than a satisfyingly structured script.

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

I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.