Bonnie Hammer Quotes

It's very rare, in a movie franchise, where you have the same creative team behind the camera and in front of the camera, pretty much, for the entire growth of the franchise.

I don't really think my work breaks into periods. In fact, if you listen to my work in all its so-called periods, what you should hear is continuity.

There's a thing, in general, about doing any kind of series, especially when the characters remain the same, to go back and try to improve whatever you did in the last movie, which never happens.

I don't know about doing a sequel. I think you can retroactively damage a product by adding to it.

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be.

'Sag Harbor' was a very different book for me. It changed the way I thought about books that I wanted to do.

Lucasfilm looks out for 'Star Wars.' What are the values inherent in 'Star Wars' that we want to protect? It's fragile to a certain extent in that it's a single IP.

Artists in general never stay in the same place; we keep growing. It's still you: you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.

I think the narratives on 'Trans,' 'Plans,' and 'Narrow Stairs' moved away from the way I wrote on the first couple of records, which was a lot more impressionistic. I was writing those songs in my early 20s, so I thought I was being more clear than I actually was.

With 'Insidious 2,' I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.

All my films I have shot in chronological order - always. And the reason is that there's a moment that the screenplay is the notion of the film. But when you start doing a film... the work itself starts being transformed, and you have to surrender.

Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.

I came out of 'Che' a different filmmaker.

You have to have that core creative team around you who's going to support your vision, and challenge and evolve it.

I suspect that writers and other creators are never really finished with any work.

I started out as a musician, and I ended up as a cartoon.

Being able to evolve great franchises over time is the foundation of world-class entertainment companies.

I'm interested in extrovert characters, people who are doing something. But I used to only be able to photograph people I was interested in or attracted to, either psychologically or physically. That all changed when I did the 'Go Sees.'

I don't think it'd be the right choice to continue indefinitely creating 'Souls' and 'Bloodborne' games.

'My Church' - that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist.

The cinematic universe will not worry about 'Legion.' They will not worry about these TV worlds at all.

I think the best artists are the ones who constantly change - Madonna, Bowie.

In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.