Quotes About Artistic

I think if I hadn't become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would have put it in a box that I never opened.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the supreme nut jobs in movie history, and of course I mean that in the nicest way.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

I was just so surprised at the impeccable images I had in my head that I just had to express them in some sort of physical matter.

I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world.

'Female Convict 701: Scorpion' is based on a manga as is 'Lady Snowblood.' I saw 'Lady Snowblood' in the theater between writing issue three and issue four of the first arc of 'Pretty Deadly,' and I was really surprised how much I was influenced by it.

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

When I started publishing my work, one of the biggest surprises to me was the recurring question about my background and why I wasn't doing more stories about Asian-Americans.

My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing.

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.

They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

When you see an Alexander McQueen fashion show, you are taken on a journey. It's surreal.

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal.

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

I would say that my music is surreal, it's inspired by dreams, and it's inspired by heartbreak.

The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.

For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.

The respect for a musical score must come from the director... If the director has no power and has to surrender to budgetary constraints, this is where we have the problem.