Wylie Dufresne Quotes

Less is more.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

I've always thought that less was a lot more.

I have always believed in 'less is more' in everything I do, from work to my personal life.

I usually go with the 'less is more' approach.

Less is more. You should wear earrings or bracelets, but not both.

It's amazing to me how often the answer to making something sound better is to play something less.

I always think less is more.

When you're young, the temptation is maybe to think, 'More is more.' But a lot of the time less is more.

If you're doing takeout, try to get the healthiest takeout you can. And just take it out of the plastic, right? Get your grandma's old china or get a fancy little bowl, and put the takeout in the bowl and light a candle.

I'm not a 'more is better' guy.

Less is more. I would notice that when I did my makeup, I was putting on more makeup than they did on me at shoots. A little goes a long way, so I definitely learned how to wear less.

Do less than you ever thought it was possible to do.

If I could have done anything more, it would have been less

Now that I have the opportunities to do a lot, I want to do less.

I do think that it's always okay to show too little. People will still be interested. So why show too much?

Less is more only when more is too much.

He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.

But I don't want more things than I need, either.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

I hope I'm able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I'm reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That's what I'd like to do.