Viggo On Creative Things "You tend to be paying more attention when you have a camera. You look more attentively. You're much more aware of the landscape. Whether you use it or not, everything kind of changes when you've got the camera with you, the potential of using it."
Viggo Mortensen
A Visit With Viggo, By Marianne Love, Sandpoint magazine, 2004
Re: Viggo On Creative Things "It's unhealthy to rely on any one thing for your happiness," says Mortensen, "but I don't think that because I have other creative interests it keeps me from having some sort of desperation of wanting attention or not getting enough of it, and so forth. I think it has to do more with how you look at movies. I'm glad if good work is recognised, but if it isn't, it doesn't mean that I'm going to change my mind about it. I'm not going to suddenly think, 'well, maybe I didn't have such a good time making it'. I did."
Re: Viggo On Creative Things "I like to get to know the characters and I have never played a character, no matter how hideous his actions were, that I didn't really like the person I was playing somehow or feel a bond with this character in a sense."
Viggo Mortensen
The Fire That Fuels an Artist's Heart, by Carnell, Carpe Noctem magazine #15, 1999
Re: Viggo On Creative Things "You supply the blue and they supply the other colours and mix them with your blue. And maybe there's some blue left in the painting and maybe there isn't. Maybe there wasn't supposed to be any there in the first place. So have some fun and make a good blue, and walk away. I try to do that. Sometimes I succeed." Premiere Jan. 2003
-I beleive he is making a movie /painting anology here.-
Re: Viggo On Creative Things “On a practical level, poetry isn’t something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read. Likewise with photography.” (VPM 2004)
thanks to 3sacharm for siggi
