Tim Burton:
Take a risk on an original idea.
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to
reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making
someone elses's dream?
Jean-Luc Godard:
It's not where you take things from — it's where you take
them to.
Robert Rodriguez:
Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of
what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.
and a very provoking one:
...I always ask for less money that we need so that you have
to be more creative, you have to strip it down.
On that note: A happy New Year to all independent spirits
