Paolo Sorrentino Quotes

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close, but in most of the scenes, I am trying not to be seen. I think that's the trick. I think it starts in your heart, goes to the head, and the head puts it into the finger.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

You never know what can happen in football. It's football.

The playoffs are unpredictable. You never know what can happen and how these playoffs go.

That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes you can do it and sometimes you can't. It's really peculiar.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know.

One of the things that I find so exciting about life is that you're constantly surprised. You never know what's going to happen, and it's certainly like that making movies; every once in a while, one will come along that transcends all of your expectations.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.

Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.

It's a lot of fun to be a part of films that you don't exactly know how they're going to turn out.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.

It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.

I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

With film, you can feel confident that you're doing good work, but never know what it's going to look like.

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 have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.

By the end of it, you never know how it's going to turn out. Hopefully if I pick the right songs and put the right melodies on it and all the collaboration works out. it's a win-win situation.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.