Paul Schrader Quotes

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.

For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Madame, if it is possible, it has already been done; if impossible, it will be done.

Don't wait for someone to tell you what to do. Develop an innovative solution and work as a team to make it happen.

With each job that you're given an opportunity to do, you're asked to use new parts of yourself and to figure the play out with other tools that you perhaps didn't use with the last show.

I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.

I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.

I always look at 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.' They talked about how they wrote this movie with horses, and then they realized that horses are super-expensive and time-consuming. 'Why don't we just change it to coconuts?' That's part of my process.