I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.
It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.
I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'
There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time.
A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.
Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
What inspires me today is a desire to get closer to an understanding of what my artistic capacities are with the hope of organically sharing my gifts with an audience in the most heightened way I possibly can.
I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.
I had an agent once who wanted me to make many more movies. I said, 'I can't. I can only do one a year, if that. I have children, young children.' And he said, 'Well, I guess you won't be a superstar.' And I said, 'Well, I guess not.'
