Quotes About Artistic

I didn't want to box myself into writing just rock music because you can try to force it into moments that don't want it.

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

In south India, the film culture is deeply rooted. That makes it very professional.

I would absolutely love to do another Baz Luhrmann film, especially a 'Moulin Rouge' type picture.

I sing. I used to think singing is going to be the route, and I still sing to this day. I still try to write lyrics.

I went through a period of watching probably too many Bergman films in a row. I felt like I'd discovered the answer to what cinema should be.

When it comes to art in general now, we've become so aware of our influence. We know when people are listening, when people are watching. It's not healthy. We start creating with that in the background of our mind. I think it's ruined my mind.

We've been involved in a lot of albums that were really rushed at the end.

I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.

I only started singing the Russian roles when I came west.

I'm not the sad sack that people might think I am. But I think that if I didn't write and perform, I probably would be.

For me, Malayalam films remain the most important. I don't want to do more Tamil films just for the sake of it.

I don't love big films for the sake of big films. It's not been a career drive to get to that point.

The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff.

Often if a picture is in trouble one way or another, there are ways to salvage it, through reshoots or whatever.

Honestly, 'Side A' is supposed to be a project just from my heart and whatever is happening in my heart at the time, and I want 'Side B' to also fit that same thing.

I wish I was more of a song-and-dance girl. I sang in a show once. I wish I could be in 'Hair.'

For me, 'Gulabo Sitabo' is a satire... I wanted to do satire and I think it's turned out exactly how I wanted it to be.

Films are made for audience's appreciation but films are also made for artistic satisfaction.

If you want to sell a film, you have to make it in an exaggerated way. Otherwise, you have to make it for your own satisfaction.

I'm artistically satisfied and happy.

It's fun being creative and that's satisfying.

If you go for the money first and try to think of what other people want to see, you change your original inspiration and perhaps put out something that's less original and less personal and maybe less satisfying.

Playing pentatonic scales over orchestral music is not something I want to do or listen to.