Wynn Bullock Quotes

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Don't think too much. The best pictures come naturally.

I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.

I have a vision for everything that I make, but... I'm not that considerate about what I do. I do whatever is in my head and how it ends up tends to be the thing that it's supposed to be. It was never a premeditated decision.

People go, 'What do you want to do?' What do you want to do? What are you feeling? Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do—that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

You can also see sometimes that the best pictures are the ones where you didn't try so hard, where you were just enjoying the process - and you didn't even know why you were making the picture. It felt right. If someone asked, 'Why are you making this picture?' you probably couldn't describe it very well - and that's why it needs to be a photograph.

It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.

I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.

You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

Don't think, just do.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

I don't know if I do anything to get into character: I just go with my gut.

Whatever I hear in my head is what I play.

Sometimes, I knew generally what I was going to do, but I've never written anything down. Call it a sixth sense: the lines just come.

It's TV: you just have to jump in and just do it. You don't have time to think about it. You don't have time to write a history, which makes it even better. I go with first instincts.

You can't think; you just gotta do things.

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into.

I really don't believe in planning my life. I am just going with the flow and following my heart.

I never had a plan; I always follow my intuition.