Zac Posen Quotes
Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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My parents always supported me and complimented me on other things, not just my looks. They told me I was capable, that I was smart, that I was creative.
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Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.
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You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
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Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.
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I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.
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What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.
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I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
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The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.
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Where there's tea, there's hope.
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It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.
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Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.
