Scott Aukerman Quotes

Creating things sometimes is difficult.

When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.

I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.

What I can say is that there are some collections that come easily, and others that require more work.

Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all these things are in play all the time. I think it's what makes the excitement of creativity for the artist.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.

People ask me, 'What's your next film?' And I never know.

If I was painting a picture, I wouldn't want to take a picture of a single paint stroke. I'd rather show people what it looks like when it's done.

When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.

That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

I like creation even if the process is always a bit difficult.

There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do anything. What are you going do? Retire?

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

All art is concerned with coming into being.

Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might appear.

Everything stinks till it’s finished.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there.