Ari Aster Quotes

I become mad when I work. It's like a fever that grows; I don't need to choose just one thing.

I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.

I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.

If you want to just make a good movie, if you don't enjoy every step and become a master of each little moment, then you shouldn't be doing it.

For a film to be made is a small miracle. And sometimes it's a large one.

When I'm working on something, if I went to an exhibition of an artist I respect, then I usually come home quite depressed and look at what I'm doing and throw it all away and start again.

When you make movies the way I do, you invest everything you have. And you do it like a crazy maniac.

For me, every film is an interesting experience.

I don't try to be difficult. I just care so much about these albums that I get crazed sometimes when I'm making them.

When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.

It took me a good two-and-a-half to three years to write 'Dhobi Ghat' and more importantly be satisfied with it.

I make one film in three years, if I go wrong it will take me another three years to prove myself.

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.

I wanted to complete 'Maryada Ramanna' in a short time, but it took me almost a year, and now 'Eega' took double the time, but in the end, it was worth it.

When I am on a set and I am working, I am almost near-obsessive about it. I love the process.

Whenever I finish a film, I feel that this is the worst film that I have made. This is bound to happen because while writing, directing and editing a film, I would have lived it 5000 times. Naturally, one tends to loose objectivity.

Chasing perfection can make you go mad.