Saul Bass Quotes

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste.

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

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

I think as a director you have to make it your own. It'd be a mistake to approach a project with the idea of 'I'm going to do this the way I think somebody else would,' because then you'd never be clear on your idea.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

No two directors make the same film the same way.

When you are pursuing art, it is critical to develop something signature. There are plenty of people who are followers, but it is absolutely necessary to have something that sets you apart.

Films should involve a director's idiosyncrasies as much as possible I think.

I'm not like any other artist, point blank.

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

It's important for me that anything I lend my stamp to must have a perspective that is uniquely mine.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I'm not the average artist.

My work is distinct and definitive and specific, and hopefully it is so that every single character is different, and they are - but there's probably an underlying element that's me.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.