Quotes About Artistic

It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.

I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

When I see the first dailies on any movie, I usually feel that I had no idea how this combination of ingredients was going to mix together, what it was going to produce.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

When you make a record, you probably are not going to hit exactly what you were aiming for. You also have to let go at a certain point, and just trust it.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

Anyway, it's liberating when you get to a point in a poem where you can legitimately deviate from the form, and I like the tension that can exist between expectation and execution. Like there's something a little more idiosyncratic or individual going on.

Art is a reaching toward, a bid to be seen and understood and recognized by another. It involves a form of transference.

So like what I want to do is connect all of my albums and make it tell a bigger kind of story. So the first album is very focused on her family life and her love life.

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

But I love how people who are musical, they know how to dress.

Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and Im very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

I love physical movement. Dance was my favorite thing, and I was a gymnast. I find that expression through movement is easier, in some ways, than expression through words.

I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.

I love directing. It's where my heart is, and it's the way my mind works.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.