Quotes About Artistic

If I could say what my dream role to dance was that I didn't get to do, if I had to choose one, it would be Giselle in 'Giselle.'

Honestly, if I could shoot everything in 1:33, I would.

When I go to the cinema, I want to have a cinematic experience. Some people ignore the sound and you end up seeing something you might see on television and it doesn't explore the form.

Part of my reason for 'Session 9' was to break out, to destroy the illusion of me as 'Mr. Romantic Comedy Guy.'

For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.

I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.

It may be that learning to do creative work of any kind - not just direct imagery exercises - may help combat writer's block.

I know 'Napalm' seems like a military-themed album, but what it is, is just the backdrop and the imagery that we used.

Visually, I want to try everything. But I believe that every shot of my films really expresses what I think about the story and the character. The most important thing is the story, not the images.

When I first met my husband, he was sculpting Vilnius out of clay - a sort of Vilnius, anyhow: a map of an imaginary European city based on the Lithuanian capital - to illustrate his second novel.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules and I had to imagine what all the characters looked like. And to develop those characters, so nothing exists visually when I get the script.

I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.

If something comes along that is totally outside of horror, fine, but I find there's an immense amount of freedom within the genre.

I'm looking to immerse myself more in the entertainment community and possibly get into doing some acting. Music is my first love, what I was most naturally drawn to and choose to study. Getting into the acting world is like a new exciting challenge.

I work in an impatient way.

I am a very impatient director.

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

I'm awfully tired of playing grieving people, which seems to have been my bent in the last five years. But it's an important part of my life and if I can express it in any way, I will - including doing seminars.

It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we're writing for the most important people: the fans.

I thought I was going to be a serious screenwriter and produce serious films. It was going to be 'American Beauty' and very important work.

It took me a good two-and-a-half to three years to write 'Dhobi Ghat' and more importantly be satisfied with it.