Angel Olsen Quotes

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I think the more realistic you try to make the graphics and the experience, the more you limit yourself to a single vision.

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

To create something you must be something.

Everybody struggles to come up with stuff that no one has ever seen before. It's a fine line between trying to get creative and doing something that's new, fresh and different - yet, for me, something that's based in reality that would actually work in these situations. These are the keys to great fight scenes and action sequences.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.