Bertie Carvel Quotes

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time.

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.

Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy writing another book as much as I enjoy this one.' Every time, I'm convinced. And then I change my mind when I start the next book.

Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.

Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

I think the intuitive processes of discovery are the same, very much the same, in the arts as in the sciences.

A new setting is amazing cause it's new for the team, and it's new for our characters. It's a breakaway from the normal deal. You get so tired, locked into a show for so many years. You get used to doing the same thing. A little shake-up and change is good.

One of the interesting things an artist does is they keep rediscovering things, whether it's a jazz piece or a role you've done for 3,000 performances or a song you're singing for the 3,000th time. My job is to find that spark that keeps it fresh and alive.

I get bored after I invent something because I hate talking about it every time.

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.