Hema Malini Quotes

One of the reasons I love making movies is because it's an opportunity to share with the world a different way of being or a different way of living or seeing the world. If it's something you've already seen before, if I have too many reference points for it, then it's not exciting for me to make.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.

I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.

I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

None of my movies have ever made any money, so it's not about commercial success for me. It's always the same thing. I want to create something valuable, something unusual and different that the world has never seen.

Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

I have always chosen subjects which are little different, and not subjects that you see. That challenges me and the actors who work in the project.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

I'm a creative person, and I'm gonna be creative, so whoever's upset because of that, that's too bad.

I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.

They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic.

We need young people to be involved, and we have to expect that young people are going to be impatient, they don't want to wait, and they've got new ideas and new ways of looking at problems.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.

People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

Trust your creativity.

I basically just make films that interest me. And I don't want to make the same film twice, you know? But I've never found a franchise, so... I guess I'm lot poorer because of that, but... what astonishes me is that, at my age, I can still find things that interest me. And that's tremendous.