Quotes About Artistic

You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have to do that as a director, it's not the same. Ninety percent of directing is not creative - it's putting the theoretical into the practical world.

The easiest way for me to tell someone what I do is to say that I'm a non-musician who practises and produces music. I don't have a theoretical language for music. I have this abstract dream language.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

I'm very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.

I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory!

I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.

Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.

To me to singing is like a freedom. It's a very therapeutic thing. It's incredible. I can just lose myself. It's sort of like meditation.

I never let people see me without makeup. And it's not an insecurity thing. The perk of being a girl is being able to wear makeup and dress up. It's another artistic outlet. And the 45 minutes it takes me to get ready... is very therapeutic for me. It's hard to start my day without that.

Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself.

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

Creativity, for me, is almost like therapy; my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind, and there's some dark stuff in there.

At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.

I think therapy interferes with the creative process. It takes off the edge.

Everything that has a spare piano is 'like Satie' and everything with strings is 'filmic,' Sometimes I get annoyed when they say my stuff sounds 'like Satie'. No, it doesn't. At least, I don't think so.

They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

With country, it's hard to penetrate the thick layers of commercialism that have been applied like shellac coatings over the real thing.

I've got a lot of artistic energy, but there's only so much of it, though. You don't want to spread yourself thin.

I have a lot of things to say and a lot of things to let out of me.

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.