Quotes About Artistic

I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn't getting anywhere - like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department - I would draw the other people.

But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much.

What's nice about what we have is when you enter the set, the world of film, it becomes this real cocoon, very different from all the publicity. That's the fun part.

If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and so I use piano to convert my poems.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

I'd rather be a cartoonist. I don't want to be a publisher.

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always do.

I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.

There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

I just want to make films that have enough of a budget to pull off high-level imagery but also have a budget that is low enough that I can do what I want.

I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

Sometimes my favorite directors are the ones I literally want to punch in the nose.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

A lot of bands have to change what they sound like, but we are exactly the band that we want to be: a pop band, definitely, but we've got a rock and punk edge.

When we began Daft Punk, by the albums we made, by the interviews we did and by every opportunity we had we tried to break all the boundaries between musical genres.

I was really into punk rock but also into musical theater.

I'm very creative - making music, making puppets, that's my thing - but mainstream success and the demands that brings? No, not really for me.

I'm happy that good works by young artists with limited chances will see the light of day by my purchasing them.

I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.