David Wroblewski Quotes

Looking back at it now, it's almost overwhelming, the amount of work that went into writing 'Shine', and to come up with the ideas that we're doing now.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

I can be working on a collection and a film at the same time. It can take a lot out of me, but the processes come from the same source. From a brief I set myself I can make a film, I can make a collection, I can make an installation.

I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion.

Each production is its own experience.

You can't allow your creative sessions to be dominated by miniscule editing processes.

How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself.

I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something and I tend to feel like it's leading me and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

I always think that you finish one movie, you start a new one, and you think, 'OK. I did that last one. Now I've learned. I know how this works.' Then by the end of the movie, you think, 'No, I don't, really.'

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

'The Storms We Share' has been a project that I've been working on for so long.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?