Quotes About Artistic

My favorite movies are from directors that have a vision, like Wes Anderson or Tim Burton.

Sometimes when it comes to music, effects or sound engineering, it is difficult to achieve what you want within a fixed time frame.

When you're a musician, a lot of time people help you out; they take pity on you. Family members will kind of come around and are like, 'Listen, I bought you a bunch of groceries because I know that you're a screwup.'

There is something timeless and beautiful about cooking straight to camera.

So much respect is given to artists who are doing things that seems sort of timeless and legitimate. That kind of legitimacy and timelessness is to me sort of the opposite of what pop music should be.

I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself.

I'm not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That's a slippery slope.

I'm not really trying to reach a big mass of an audience. My movies are done for a tiny, tiny budget, and that affords me to make them more personal.

You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much either/or. With the independent films, it's always a beautiful risk - it might never be seen. With the studio films, you're conforming to the formula of what's always been in place.

Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall on the page. I just did this image of a fat girl and put her on a tiny mountain peak of grass that she's walking over. It just amused me.

Athens is an amazing city for creativity. I bought a house there. A little, tiny place.

When the mumblecore 'Tiny Furniture' thing happened, it reminded me of the thing we were trying to do in my little 1995 way.

It's really weird how the rock world is quickly becoming like the jazz world. How if you do OK, or get a tiny bit of success, that's considered a sellout, whether you did anything different or not.

I really want to make something that makes people think. I love that movie 'Tiny Furniture' that Lena Dunham made. I just love that movie, and I laugh at that movie a lot, but I also felt a lot too. I'm just inspired by people like that.

'Jhankaar Beats' is a great movie with fabulous music. But when I see myself in it as an actor, I feel so tiny and young.

It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

I've always wanted to title an album 'Illinois.' I wrote the song, which was a very special song to me. The song isn't exactly about being from there, even though I am.

I normally take a long time finding titles. I finish the book and go into sweats for months afterwards trying to think of them.

Titles are relatively arbitrary to me; they take on meanings that aren't really my meanings. 'Sound Of Silver' was just, like, I made the studio silver, and I wanted the record to sound 'more silver.'

If you look at most mainstream filmmaking, to be honest, some of these films aren't even asking questions anymore at all.

To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.

I'm not the most confident dancer, to be honest. Dancing on film was very difficult for me because you can see it after it's been done.

To be honest, I make very controversial films. The films that I've made have been very, very bold choices.