Nathan Fielder Quotes

I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful.

It's so much fun trying to channel my inner four-year-old.

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.

There's a bit of the kid in me.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala.

A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.