Diego Klattenhoff Quotes

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write.

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

I would say that 'After the Storm' is much more informed by my personal life than my other movies.

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is this place where you lose control, where you're irresponsible - it's a very liberating place.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

Writers can take offense when someone asks what's real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that's not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon's tail - what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head.

I loved the world of imagination.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

I have a very vivid imagination.

I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.