Quotes About Artistic

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

Some young filmmakers, unfortunately, don't have the ability to resist attempts to maybe cut their films down unfairly.

You hear nightmare stories from young filmmakers working in Hollywood, being told what to do.

Watching a Kirk Douglas movie, 'Young Man With A Horn,' made me want to be a trumpet player.

There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn't really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us to go into a certain direction, so they could promote us easier.

There's a heavy hip-hop influence in my music, some trap influence, but it's always lyrical.

The reason I write is because I have questions. What I don't want is for people to forget that I'm a novelist and think I'm a sociologist or something. I don't want to feel trapped into a corner where I don't belong.

I grew up being an artist, but also rock-climbing and traveling the world and teaching my kids.

Nina Simone is a musical genius and a rich and precious treasure who paid a heavy price for her artistic freedom.

People in fashion treat it as a business... I guess Hollywood is a business, too, but you talk about story: you talk about a more artistic world than in fashion.

My work space is so visually crammed. It's like an insane candy store. The number of textiles I'm surrounded with is mind boggling. It's a treat to come home to a nice negative space.

Life is very complicated. I look to collaborate with artistic people and to go into an endeavor without judgment and to hopefully be treated with the same.

I wasn't creative when I was depressed. When my depression got treated, I was creative again.

A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly.

We weren't your mainstream '50s family. Both my parents had wonderful, eccentric, artistic friends who treated us as friends as well. How your mind worked was considered important.

When I did 'Happy Birthday,' I wrote the treatment for the video before I wrote the record. And once I wrote the video, I had a clear understanding of what I wanted; I created the soundtrack to that video.

I've got so many musical personalities, I could probably get treatment for it.

My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, spiky hair with some markers, then stuck the heads on Christmas lights. Every year, we'd string our tree with those Barbie heads. It looked demonic. My parents were so cool - they saw it as a form of self-expression.

'The Joshua Tree' was the soundtrack of my life when we were making 'Appetite.'

I am somebody who is not too fond of fancy or commercial stuff, like dancing around trees. Even in the 20 films I have done in South, none had any of such stuff.

I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

I have so much respect for directors. It's a tremendous amount of pressure; you have to keep steadfast and keep what you know is right.