Karine Vanasse Quotes

It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.

If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.

Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.

I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.

I have a particular taste, I do films according to it and promote it accordingly.

I always knew that content was the best way to sell things, but my thing was, why sell other people's stuff if I have a point of view?

I've been a visual artist my entire life, so translating music to imagery has always come naturally to me. Tycho is an audio-visual project in a lot of ways, so I don't see a real separation between the visual and musical aspects; they are both just components of a larger vision.

A new 'look' for any organization cannot be a papier-mache cover, tacked on with Scotch tape under the heading of 'beautification.' It has to be based on a probing examination of the company and the people who work for it. As a result, the eventual external visual design becomes the graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.

When I'm in a session with an artist, my job is to help execute their vision - so it's whatever story they're telling, and the news doesn't specifically affect that.

When a brand says, 'Our product is great, and we think it'll be great for anyone that loves it, too,' that's the ultimate marketing message.

Ultimately what I try to do is work on stories I love with people I admire, and sometimes they get made and sometimes they don't.

We don't want to be a design line. Ultimately, we want to be a platform that houses many design aesthetics.

I think, what happened with 'Dead Silence' is that other people told us that we should be doing that and now that I look back, I realize, 'should' is not a word that comes into an art. It's whatever you're feeling like doing.

Marketers sometimes get caught in this lie that you must talk to people only in the voice that they recognize.

When we were writing for Panic whether we knew it or not, having that name over the songs we were trying to do made me second guess things and change things. I started to go against my instincts.

I try to just focus on what feels right to me when I am conceiving it, conceptualizing, designing, etc. and then talk it through with the team and listen to what they have to say. This kind of thing is a team effort, and working with a great team is the most important part of filmmaking for me.

Any brand in the world wants to make desirable product. But we don't shove it down people's throats.

I used to once believe that the script is the most important thing, but now I also believe that the kind of people you are working with also matters a lot, and moreso, to see how the film will be promoted.

I never control a film. The film controls me.

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

The wonderful thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. The worst thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. That dynamic is thrilling and challenging every time you make a show.

I want to show people what I'm about - not just, 'Here's my celebrity partner this year that I'm going to showcase.'

I guess when you're holding the creative reins, you can be across everything, and it's more authentic. You can control it.

I've always written the storyboards for the music videos, and it's been hard working with directors trying to get them to understand what I'm thinking.