Dexter Fletcher Quotes

I want to go make an original movie. It's all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft.

I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.

I've been joking that if Madonna taught us anything, you've got to reinvent yourself. I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances. I've tried to take a chance with every film I've done - I've never done it the easy way, and I think that's because that's what excites me, is making as big a mountain as I can in front of me, and just trying to mount it.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas.

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

People sometimes get a little extra criticism when they try something that they don't normally do, but I think that's just a natural thing for artists. It's like, 'Okay, I did that, and now I want to try this.'

Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.

I'm still finding myself as an artist. I'm still experimenting a little bit.