Quotes About Artistic

Anything that has a creative element attached to it - I will take it up, similar to my career choices.

There is something embarrassing about asking for money, but if I hadn't done that, I would have not continued to be a professional musician.

When I wrote 'Dopamine,' I was so enamored by Los Angeles and finally making music I was really excited about.

My parents were definitely encouraging with creativity.

I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.

I think that's the key to any artistic endeavor: You want it to feel fresh and not have people look at it like it's re-creation of something else unless it's done in a really strong way.

Working in 'The Namesake' was a personally enriching experience.

Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.

There was never a conscious dream to enter films.

I don't like when an Asian-American actor says, 'I'm entering this business to change Hollywood.' It feels like the wrong reason - I would prefer they entered the business for artistic reasons, because they need to do it.

I have to do films for myself, films that make me learn. I also have to be an entertainer.

I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.

I'm all about risque - I love that stuff. I love to be creative - that's what the entertainment business is about.

Twitter is the best art for writers. I find it enticing.

If I was going to direct an episode of 'Younger', I wanted it to look like an episode of 'Younger.'

Doing a truncated series is like doing a long movie, which allows for a certain artistic freedom. After just 12 episodes, you can take a breather and do other things for your career.

I feel like music and acting are so much my love, and they're so much equal in my eyes. I couldn't really choose between the two.

I am equally a writer and an actor and a director.

You can't live in Austin and escape the music.

I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.

The things I want to make into a film, they're personal, esoteric things, and I don't expect anyone else to like them as much as I do. I generally like my films more than anybody else will.

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.

I'd like to do one European film a year.

So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.