Quotes About Artistic

In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this.

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.

The life of Edward Estlin Cummings began with a childhood in Cambridge, Mass., that he described as happy, but he struggled in both his artistic and romantic exploits against the piousness of his father, an esteemed Harvard professor.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.'

I find that male directors are more interested in what the film looks like as opposed to what the film is about emotionally. My job is not to make the film look pretty, and I don't feel drawn to making myself look pretty within the film.

'City of God' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' are both films that I really like, but they are stylistically the opposite of what I wanted to do.

I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself.

It probably would be impossible for me to make music and not make it sound like Burzum. This is the music I make and the only music I am able to make, so I have no other options musically.

I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon' - they're all so different.

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.

I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

I'm very organic in nature with my creativity. It just kind of wraps around me, or it's a moment I have, a click of inspiration. It's never calculated.

My collaborations tend to be pretty organic. It starts off with me being a fan first.

If I get in the studio, it's very organic. I like to go off how I feel.

I always have a will to write. It's organic to me.

The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic.

I can't describe how I make a film. It's organic.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

I didn't want the record to be cold and I don't think it's cold at all. I felt it was very people oriented.