Quotes About Artistic

I listen to everything: hip hop, R&B, alternative, pop. I love JCole, so I'm always listening to him. Kendrick and Drake.

I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day.

I'm not really premeditative in any way at all. I come up with an idea, hopefully for a film, and then I'm lucky enough to do the film.

I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it.

I've been doing theatre for years, but film acting has broadened my horizon.

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one.

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

I have always loved creating and entertaining. It started with music, singing. I grew up in a household filled with music - not pop but old-school stuff, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong.

I was brought up in a bohemian household where my dad plays guitar and my mom plays piano just because they love it.

You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.

I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.

I'm a huge fan of Flying Lotus. I like The XX's stuff.

I'm a huge fan of what 'Hipstamatic' is doing and all they've accomplished.

In the case of 'Shape Of Water,' I want it to feel like a song. I wanted people to come out of the movie humming the movie.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

I think it's important for anyone who is artistic to look back on their body of work and be critical. Maybe the Beatles can look back and say everything was perfect, but we've come up with hundreds and hundreds of dishes, and anyone who is honest with themselves has to realize that every single one wasn't an absolute, unequivocal home run.

Football. Here's a surprise: I like it. That means everything didn't change when I fell on my head. It proves that you can be an athlete and a video club kid at the same time. Not in my case, obviously. Video club invited me to get lost. But it's possible to be both. I have no idea why more people don't do it. Maybe it's because the jocks will never find out if they enjoy doing something artsy because they'll never try it. And the arts kids feel the same way about sports.

Art is a way of penetrating and going deep into our unconscious and creating amazing worlds - as the Greeks did, if you like, as did Ovid with his stories and his fantasies.

There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.