Quotes About Artistic

When I create art, it's like holding hands with God.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there.

I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.

I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.

There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

My family was not an artistic family, but somewhere in my head, I thought I might be good at it. I don't know why I thought it. I had no evidence to think I might be good at it.

With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.

I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.

To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn't mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.

I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

A lot of films in Canada are subsidized by the government, and compared to a studio, the government really stays out of your face creatively.