Jonathan Anderson Quotes

When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.

I don't want to slam the cute and fun movies out there, but it gets old.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.

You have some great films every year, but for the most part, no one is making films with heavy messages or themes. People are afraid of doing that.

I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

It's not ideal when art is seen as just some passing entertainment quickly thrown out into the market, like a consumer object. You have to let things settle and think about them.

Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension

I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

I think it’s a wonderful view that care was important – but I think you can make a one-off and not care and you can make a million of something and care. Whether you really care or not is not driven by how many of the products you’re going to make.

I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately, there are millions who do.

In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught off guard, then some beautiful experiences never happen.

In this world, you get what you pay for.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.

Most experiences provoke a transformation in you. So, when you live something, live it fully because you never know when this is going to happen again and not only that, if it even happens again, it will not have the same impact.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.

There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.