Quotes About Artistic

I would hardly say that I have a rich knowledge of anything in particular, but I do seem to be burdened with an unseemly appetite for intellectual and artistic erudition, which, for the sake of balance, I keep well harnessed to a reliable sense of the absurd.

The independence of content creation without fearing what's going to be censored has relieved a lot of filmmakers in India.

For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.

Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been taken, I think a lot of people are scared that it's going to be perceived as propaganda.

No, we'll never get back together. We'll remain friends, but I see her going in a completely different direction than me musically. But she'll end up doing really well if she continues on the path she's on. Because she's doing something very original.

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.

Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.

Of all my movies, I feel that 'Krishna Gopalakrishna' remains one of my best works though it could not be called a box office success. I maintain that it was far ahead of its time.

Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.

I'm just curious how it'd look like if someone tried to remake my work. But I really believe that it's hard to remake of any of my work.

We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price.

You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

I don't think I would have made 'Blank Project; if I hadn't made 'Cherry Thing.' I think that was a real rebirth in a way, and a remembrance of how I like to make music best, the most. Like being in a more chaotic place, maybe. Like a place of making and being creative where the mistakes can be left in.

I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.

You can recognize almost immediately if the film you're watching is the product of some kind of a hive mind or the result of a personal vision and genuine collaborations. 'Manchester by the Sea' reminds us of the potential of the latter and, for that reason, is the kind of work that makes me, as a filmmaker, want to continue. It's inspiring.

The atmosphere in my house wasn't of the creative kind at all. No one in my family is remotely connected with films.

Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no point in it.

When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

'Rent' was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you're allowed to write.

I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler.

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

It's been very exciting for me to start directing and conducting, exploring the symphonic repertoire, which I've always loved.