Renata Adler Quotes

In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world.

You come to the city, and you have a chance to find out who you really are.

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.

I have to reinvent myself.

He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

I love different roles, just getting into it, something that's the complete opposite of who I am.

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

If you change because of fame, that's not the right thing. But if you change because of growth, that's normal... The whole fame thing hasn't hit me. And I hope it kind of doesn't.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

I'm constantly changing, I'm constantly growing. I think I'm a little controversial... I just try and keep some mystery, so hopefully people can't really put their finger on it.

Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Part of being in New York is being able to brag about what used to be there.

Why was I going around in rhinestones before, and am now wearing a plaid shirt and glasses? It's not a question of fashion. It's a question of time and yourself. The country changed, I grew up, life changed. It's normal.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.