Hilary Hahn Quotes

I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.

It's a real luxury to have a studio all to myself, somewhere to start mood boards for the next collection.

My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

Writing makes you more human.

I felt I was painting with a Popsicle.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

I don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on.

That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.

When I make a film, I don't watch a lot of other films. I read a lot; I try to read poems, things that can liberate my human condition, that make me go away... I spend a lot of the time doing nothing, just concentrating on the subject. Sometimes I'll sit in my chair for two or three hours without doing anything.

When I was a little girl and people would ask me what I wanted to be when I got older, I always used to say I want to be paid to think. So for me, to dream, to think, to write - it is wonderful.

I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me.

In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.

The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.

What I love about research is when I'm having a bad day and I can't write, I'll just research some more, I'll learn some more and I'll have better command of the world of the film.

I speak four languages and read a great deal, so I do as much working out on the brain as I do on the body.

I want work that, possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art, foregrounds the question of how the writer solves being alive.