Quotes About Artistic

My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me.

I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here.

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.

A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.

My movies are not messed with by the studios.

I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.

When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do.

I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it.

Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.

I guess in Australia every film is sort of an indie film because there are no studios.

If you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe you shouldn't go off and do what the world thinks of as more personal films with lesser-known people. But I think I've fooled everybody. I've made personal films all along. I just made them in another form.

There are studios out there and we have met them who take the movie away from the filmmaker and don't want them to have input. But that's not with Marvel.

I was studying with Stella Adler, who was a great, great teacher who encouraged me to be an actor. I had thought I would just write or direct or whatever. I wasn't thinking very much of Hollywood. I was thinking only of the legitimate theatre. But then I changed.

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.

I'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody.

It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care.

I love doing supercrazy, avant-garde but still stunning looks.

I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship.