Quotes About Artistic

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the attempt is to reach a much more limited audience - one would say an audience that enjoys films that challenge them emotionally and intellectually.

Personally, I don't claim to be a great director. My films are made for children, not intellectuals.

I started out with V Shantaram. But my favourite director has been Gulzar, with whom I did intelligent cinema in movies like 'Khushboo,' 'Kinara' and 'Parichay.'

If you take a long time over a record, you end up making something different from what you intended.

But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.

Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape.

I have been involved with theatre since I was 13. I never seriously thought I would get into movies though I had every intention of continuing with theatre.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

Studio people are bright. Empowering. They don't want to have to interfere creatively. That's their horror story, too.

My love for interior designing has always been there.

Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them.

I think screenplay is hard. I've tried that, and it felt really difficult; like, all the stuff I think I'm good at, like description and internal experience and memory, you can't do that - or, at least, I couldn't figure out a way.

I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it.

A lot of writers want everything put on screen, but it doesn't work like that. The screenwriter brings her own imaginative interpretation, just as the director and actors do.

'Sholay' can be given so many interpretations. I have seen this film so many times since the time I was a kid that I think that there could be 50 lovely interpretations to this film. Different filmmakers can give it so many interpretations, as it's a lovely film.

This is the launch of the 'Doctor Strange' film interpretation of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted many times by other graphic artists, and this is just our graphic interpretation of The Ancient One. I would say the whole approach is about a kind of fluidity.

And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.

You must push through the negativity and self-criticism that dam up your creativity and just let it flow. Be your authentic self. Write or sing or dance or paint with your whole being, without guardedness or cynicism and without trying to second-guess an audience.