Aerin Lauder Quotes

Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.

I think, certainly, directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times, great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.

The skill of a good creative leader is being comfortable with blowing up an idea and knowing it will get better.

I'm the creative director of awesomeness.

One of the problems of a director on the set is that we become overwhelmed by all the factors and threads of production, that sometimes we can't focus on our main job, which is steering the performances to create the whole film.

Art is in the process of redefining our relationships to each other ... The creative minds are bubbling, bubbling, and I know the soup that's coming up next time is going to feed a lot more of us.

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is

The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have to be maybe sometimes too early, somewhere.

One summer I worked at Estée Lauder, and I really enjoyed the whole creative process.

Man is certainly not creative, but his creativity should not be concerned with God. His creativity should be concerned with making a better world, a better society, better literature, better poetry, better paintings, better sculpture, better human beings.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

Throughout whatever I do, I always just say "Director" first. I am directing the storylines and I'm creating what it is.

I learned that as a director, you're around all these talented people, so you have this window that all these really good ideas can come in to help your movie, so you're crazy to close them. You need to be inspiring people, engaging people. There are lots of people who are really good at their jobs but might not know or feel like they want to come up to people and get them to participate and want to do their best.

I'm a very creative person, and you know when I hooked up with Benny Boom, I said I want it to be a different kind of video. I want it to be crisp, and I want it to relate, [and] not to be so far over people's heads. And that's when we came up with the p-t-d-d-d-d-d (camera flashes.) You know with the picture changing, and that's it.

I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.

Directing is exhausting, but not for the actual directing part, when you say "Action!" and give creative notes. As a director, the exhausting part is that you are a professional answer-machine.

There's very exciting directors who haven't made a feature yet. That's what's cool about the job - the ever-changing landscape of people you could potentially work with.

What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.

As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

I think it's really important as a creative director, to always keep your ears on the ground and always surround yourself with people who've been in the business longer than you to really think of new and creative ways to present your designs to girls.

When I just write something, it's usually because I love it, I love the material, but I feel like I really need a creative partner to crack it. And I certainly need and have a lot of creative partners as a director.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.

All progress comes from the creative minority.