Original Perspective Quotes

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

Anyone who looked at something special, in a very original way, makes you see it that way forever.

The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.

I think that it was a great advantage to go into photography not knowing much about it. Not thinking. I think one of the problems with many photographers today is that they never see for themselves, but just like everybody else.

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.

I was originally a minimalist, so that's my foundation.

I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.

Stop repeating what never worked in the first place. Stand back and ask for a new solution.

I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is

Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

I want to see more young filmmakers, and specifically filmmakers who have a unique voice. I wouldn't mind seeing less of the attempt to force-feed people what others think they want, if that makes sense - whatever the formula is that some people seem to operate under, like needing a certain star, or needing a certain thing in order to get a piece made.

Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

You have to have a passionate opinion; otherwise you sound false. You end up telling the audience jokes they've already heard.

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.