Kathleen Kennedy Quotes

The most important thing as a filmmaker, the hardest journey you'll have, is to find your point of view.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

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.

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take it as it comes.

It's so difficult to actually come up with ideas that you really fall in love with, you know? That's the most difficult thing about filmmaking - and that's my main challenge in life.

You're creating ' it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You're not manufacturing somebody else's plan, somebody else's blueprint, somebody else's idea that's not yours. So when you're creating, that's the beauty side of art, you know? It comes from within you.

Just to get the basic fundamentals and empathy - I think that's the most important thing to bring to it if you've acted in the past and are now a director: the empathy.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

One of the reasons I love making movies is because it's an opportunity to share with the world a different way of being or a different way of living or seeing the world. If it's something you've already seen before, if I have too many reference points for it, then it's not exciting for me to make.

Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.