Quotes About Artistic

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Experimental or independent cinema is so exciting because it is about risk-taking, as there is no formula.

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

I think it's challenging trying to describe my sound. Not because I'm making some experimental martian music, but because it's a little broader. The things that you've heard are only fragments and small fractions of what you're going to hear.

Chaos A.D.' starts normal, but then it breaks into all these crazy fragments. But the things that surprised people is what makes the album cool.

When I go on set, it's very important, the lenses I choose, what I choose to frame or not frame and that's how I make my movies.

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

There's a band from Brooklyn called Frankie Cosmos, which is very nice.

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable.

I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class.

I am an artiste and truly a free spirit.

The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers. Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like, no one in my family is really doing that; I can be that person.

I've always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as long as it's true to the spirit.

Growing up in the Raleigh theater scene was a big factor in developing the ability, which I have now, to be freely me.

Bigger-budgeted films have more restrictions and less freedom to create. Because of this, I try to find freedom in the people I work with. I often work in ways I don't want to. It's more about controlling the situation. Lower-budget films are freer.

Sometimes a camera comes out and people freeze up a little, and I'm like that with normal cameras, but with a film camera, I feel different.

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.

When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and California. It was a very, very exciting period!

Among close friends and family members, I say whatever I want to. But, as a filmmaker, I have my responsibilities, and I have to look at so many things at the time of finalizing a script.

I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.