Creative Blindness Quotes

It's tricky to ask a filmmaker to explain his own work; usually we're the least qualified to make sense of what we've done, unfortunately, because of the tunnel vision required to create anything over four years.

Sometimes there's something that a writer doesn't see or a producer doesn't see when he's looking at a shot.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.

As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.

All authors to their own defects are blind.

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.