Manisha Koirala Quotes

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

I think about a lot of my favorite directors, and I think about their first films, and I have great admiration for the earthiness of those films.

I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job.

I admired Stephen Daldry very much; I think he's a brilliant director, and also, I feel close to him because he has a lot of theater behind him. He's also a man of great imagination and a lovely sense of humor.

I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

The magic of movie-making is that you get to fulfill your own dreams.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

You have to find something that you have to obsess over if you're making a movie about it. As a director, you have to be able to pick something that excites you enough that you can breathe it every day.

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals, and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.