Quotes About Artistic

It's funny, because, yes, there's a Marvel aesthetic, and yet no one ever said to me, 'we have to do a Marvel aesthetic.' So it was probably me more self-policing to make sure I was going to stay inside the box a little bit.

I suppose what's so amazing about working at the National Theatre is that, because it's a subsidized theatre, you're not trying to create a product that's going to have a mass market in order to make the money back.

Children are so talented. Little children, until about the age of 10 or 11, are just little artists. They need to be given the time and the space and the materials to do their work. That's all they need.

I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.

'Maxim's' was supposed to be on 'Ekstasis,' but it was very much in its own world.

Actors do all kinds of roles, but once in a while, we also want to do a meaningful film.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

I'm meant to be an animation director. That world, and the culture of stop-motion, is where I want to live. It's more my problem than Hollywood's. I'm not attuned to Hollywood.

I just write mechanical things.

My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.

I have enjoyed all mediums; in fiction you are performing in front of a camera, there is no live audience.

Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

My work is not great, but it's respectable.

As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do.

When I went home at 20 to tell my parents, 'I don't want to be an engineer, I want to try and write books,' I was braced for, 'That's not gonna happen.' But I didn't get that response, and maybe it was because of my dad's experience of having an artistic dream and having to put it aside.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

It's nice to have the creative freedom to write about whatever and no longer feeling those restrictions I had when I was 15.

The day I write a totally happy song... I'll retire.

I think, at the end of the day, that was really what the reward for production is for me, is being allowed to be a part of somebody else's musical vision for a while. Like Gwar. I got to do a Gwar record, right? That was great.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.

After I finished working on the movie, I went back into the show again playing Riff, so it was an incredible time because I loved playing Riff in the theater and, of course, I loved playing Bernardo in the film. We had such a really beautiful time. We knew we were working on something of quality.

How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn 'The Lord Of The Rings' into a film script?

Rob Zemeckis is an incredible director.