Quotes About Artistic

I'd like to do an independent film.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots.

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

Independent film is film that has thought in it. There's no independent thought in studio films. It's collective thought.

Making an independent film is so different.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

I would like to do more independent films.

I really love independent films. There's something so determined about the people who work on them.

You cannot make a living doing independent films.

Independent films, for the most part, to me, are not so independent. They often feel like people auditioning for a big commercial career. They often do not have independent spirit to them.

With independent films, you again get to work with new directors and experiment too.

When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.

The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'

Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.

I've got an awful lot of unpublished stuff lying around, but at my age, it's hard to go to auditions and rehearsals and all the rest. Besides, you get frightened. You can stand success, but you're afraid of failure.

Je le revendique. Mon père disait « toute erreur assumé devient un choix artistique ».

Toute erreur assumée devient un choix artistique

I believe that most of us, students and artists alike, ought to concern ourselves less with what we think is the right way to draw and more with letting our feelings flow through our hand. In this way, we stretch our dynamic nature. Our larger goal should be to draw in a way that expresses our vision.

No, 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn't direct it but 'Candyman' and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It's informed everything I've done, even the way scenes are shot in 'Kinsey and 'Gods and Monsters.'

You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. 'Cause you know what, the musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years were rrreal fucking high on drugs. The Beatles were so fucking high they let Ringo sing a few tunes.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.