Quotes About Artistic

I don't even want to say I'm trying to necessarily popularize classical music, I just want to take this thing, this cello, this sound, and make it artistic so people can understand it today.

I wanted to be a serious actress and do all the classics.

For me, the best way to know me is to look at my clothing.

After making 'Secretary,' it was a real shock to me to learn that some directors just aren't interested in what actors have to say. They just don't want to collaborate.

I love collaborating because I come from the world of being in bands.

That's the great part about arts - someone taking your work and making it something else; it's becomes a true collaboration.

Film is a collaborative medium, and I very much enjoy that.

In film, it is always collaborative, and so to me, it doesn't make sense to not be collaborative in one of its most critical arenas - which is the screenplay.

Colombia changed the way I write and sing.

I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

With comics, there's no budget. There's a budget in terms of you have to pay an artist and a colorist and all that, but you can do anything you want to do.

You can sometimes break rules in comics that you can't necessarily break in cinema. It's fun to find something cool in a comic and then try and find a way to break the same rule in another medium.

I knew I wanted to do comics, but I wasn't sure what they were about or what I wanted them to be about.

I never really think about what people are going to think of the movie afterwards. Or what people are going to call me. I just want to make a great project, and my focus is really all on that. And then I really don't read reviews. Like, you know, go on comment boards or anything.

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.

I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.

It is all about playing a challenging role, and whether a film is a commercial one or not does not really matter.

With 'Acoustic Soul,' I saw my music as sparse. But I didn't do that because I was making a commitment to be commercial. That's what made 'Acoustic Soul' so difficult to produce. It took 2 1/2 years because I couldn't figure out what I wanted and still be commercial.

It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.

You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.