Marianne Elliott Quotes

Maybe I'm too selfish to just be a producer. Also, I feel like I have something to say that's interesting or unique.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.

I knew I had more in me than just standing up and having my picture taken... Being in the studio, I have to have an opinion.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

Everything I write is about me.

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

I define myself by everything that I love, everything I can create, everything that I can imagine.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.