Quotes About Artistic

I think my background in film taught me that a great book adaptation is not always slavishly faithful to the source material.

Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.

If somebody actually came to me and said, 'O.K., this is it: write your last 'South Park' episodes,' I'd be like, 'No, no, no.'

I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Southern rock, classic rock.

The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.

When I started working in Mumbai, I was interested in working in the indie and niche spaces, as they do make really good cinema, driven by good stories. But then, I decided to explore everything possible.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please.

My prose has no individual style as such, but is rather an unspoken and still unexpressed groping toward the personal. There is something there that wants to come out; something of my own that must be said. Yet, perhaps, words are not the way for me.

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. writers? writers starved. writers suicided. writers went mad.

if you have to wait for it to roar out of you, then wait patiently. if it never does roar out of you, do something else.

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.

hell is a closed door when you're starving for your goddamned art but sometimes you feel at least like having a peek through the keyhole. young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious. Then

Don't listen to writers. They're messed up - that's why they're writers!

You first do the assembly cut, which is basically the cut that mirrors the script. You've got to start with that.

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

I really missed what I'd done on Rogers Cable, which was shooting and editing all my own stuff.

I really feel something's missing if I'm not writing.

'Mission: Impossible' is basically entertainment, and for what it is, it's fine. I don't think most actors become actors to do that type of film.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

On 'City Music', I wanted there to be grit, and I wanted it to be loose, and I wanted there to be mistakes.

The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.