Quotes About Artistic

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.

I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

I was in school for four years writing music to please my teachers. That was not music I liked. And when I make music that isn't for something I want to make, and it's to please other people, it's - the outcome is really bad.

I don't think that independent or off-beat films are not commercial, nor do I want to categorise them. At the end of the day, what matters is how much you compromise to please the masses. But, I am not someone who loves compromising. If there's a lot to give up on things that matter to me, I start losing interest.

It ends up being a terrible movie if you try and please everyone.

As an actor, I feel, I should not choose a film just to help get great box office results but one that challenges me as an actor and gives me the pleasure of playing a certain role.

I always wanted to, at some point, sit down and consider how to plot out one piece of work, one album, from start to finish.

I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.

For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.

If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.

I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.