Quotes About Artistic

I believe in rules. I believe in artistic limitations, and I always have. I've always thought that setting out a set of rules before you start, and then being completely consistent with them, is the only way to make a really good film.

I hope I've made a good film. And before you ask, a good film is one that I'd see three years from now and not cringe.

I like all good music - rock, pop, country, classical - and when you sit down to write, it all comes out.

A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it's a black-and-white film, and it's not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.

The first few films I made didn't look good at all, and I wasn't trying to make them look good. People dig 'em because they like the content.

Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.

I'm trying to keep a good record and do interesting movies with interesting filmmakers.

I really want to do film, but I want to do the right film. The truth for me is that I'm really driven by stories. So there are stories I want to tell, and if it's a good story then I want to do it, whatever genre it is.

I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really good taste about what take was best.

I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.

After 'Win, Lose or Draw' we were workin' on another album that nobody's ever heard, and it's a good thing nobody heard it.

I never write with constraints, which I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing.

I did this very cheap movie called 'Love,' and then I decided I wanted to make an even cheaper movie so people don't get involved and can't tell you how to rewrite it or how to avoid losing money. The good thing about doing these quite cheap movies is that you have much more freedom.

Good things will come from self-expression.

With film, you can feel confident that you're doing good work, but never know what it's going to look like.

I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.

My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.

Giving style" to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

To give style to one's character—that is a grand and rare art! He who surveys all that his nature presents in its strength and in its weakness, and then fashions it into an ingenious plan, until everything appears artistic and rational, and even the weaknesses enchant the eye..exercises that admirable art.

Solovyov's theories were to have a profound effect on a later generatio of symbolist writers that would include both Alexander Blok 1880–1921) and Andrei Bely (1880–1934). However, the first genuine "manifesto" of the new artistic and philosophical sensibilities is usually accredited to Dmitri Merezhkovsky

I decided to draw her doing something, because she always was.

I'm a situationist when it comes to anything creative, and that stands with the visual part of anything I do as well. I deal with the concrete things I have in front of me, and I think that's a wise way to be.