Robert Doisneau Quotes

It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

Let's just start and see what happens.

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered.

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

Life's supposed to be an adventure, a surprise!

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.

I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

I like to keep my options open. I'm known for changing my mind.

I'm not a planner. I like to try something different, to just see what happens.

Shooting should not be about delivering something I've prepared; it should be a live process of finding things out. When things happen that you haven't planned, that's when the film comes alive.

The people I enjoy most are the ones who don't stick to script.