Quotes About Artistic

If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do.

I'm pretty strict with videos, at least the imagery stuff.

I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.

There's no real music on television unless it's music television, and then it's expensive videos, which people like me can't do.

I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.

When you are doing music videos through the '90s, which I did, and the 2000s, you were put in the position, really, as an independent filmmaker. You were being financed by a major record company or a minor record company or whatever.

Shooting videos is the most intense, full-body experience.

Regularly in music videos, I'll write the pitch and convince the artists that this is a good idea, and then I'm having to make concessions to meet in the middle.

This is such a perfect kind of career for me because I love making videos and being in the studio and being on tour.

I'm going to be writing and directing my own videos, and performing in them too, and I'm super-excited about it.

Yes, it's true. I'm soon going to direct music videos for our company T-series.

All my records were dance-oriented, and all the hassle with major labels about changing my records, release dates, videos - everything was out of my hands. I always had to deal with somebody else, and I had a different perspective on a lot of things.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

The reason I keep making so many musical metaphors with 'Luke Cage' is that I don't view it as much a television show as I do a concept album with dialogue.

I sometimes think it's better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they're not supposed to.

I just describe music as my point of view with a little edge to it.

I can't make pronouncements about the entirety of Iranian cinema, because there's such a great number of filmmakers and because of the diversity of points of view and filmmaking attitudes.

Jesus, you get sentimental when you're high on paint fumes.

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I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

Emme is obsessed with makeup. She puts blush on her eyes, shadow on her face--it's very artistic. And she loves my shoes. She's been walking around in my heels ever since she was a year old.

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

I have so many other interests: Writing, acting, directing, real life, I need little pieces of it all to satisfy me. The thirst is deep and I am complicated.