Karyn Kusama Quotes

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

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

My time at Berklee College of Music was probably my greatest period of artistic growth and internalisation.

I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try and be the very best that I can be while I'm on this earth.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

With the first issue of 'Weasel,' I was even aware myself that I'd improved. I still have affection for my earlier stuff, but I don't think it's anywhere near as good as 'Weasel.'

I'm still learning my craft.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.

I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.

I've definitely grown and evolved as a person, as an artist, you know. Just in terms of my style, my taste, my influences, everything... That's a part of being an artist I think.

You hope to be a part of something that makes you a better artist when you leave.

Everything I do is a learning experience. It's still fun to me because I grow with every project and every song.

I think the range of my life shows in my work.

I wanted to make 'Nobody Knows,' a kind of summation of the experiences I gained from making my first three films, the good ones as well as the bad ones.

When I look back, there isn't a single film that I would disown because with every film, I've learnt a lot.