Truman Capote Quotes

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

The films I want to make, I really want to be passionate about.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

If I can't put my heart and soul into a film, I don't take it up.

What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.

I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.

I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

The trick is falling in love with something enough, and being excited enough by something, to want to make that year and a half or two year commitment and wake up every morning at 5 to go deal with a whole day full of problems to get it up on the screen. You really need passion.

I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

You have to find something that you have to obsess over if you're making a movie about it. As a director, you have to be able to pick something that excites you enough that you can breathe it every day.

Since I'm so slow, I have to be fairly choosy about the projects I take on, and it can't be something that I'm only 'sort of' into. I knew that 'The Stand' would be an amazing challenge every month that would be a blast to illustrate.

I have to have a passion in my life.

Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.