Quotes About Artistic

I think going on stage and putting on a concert for a night would be cool.

This is the problem I have: I write a play and I give it to a director and they say, 'I'll do it one condition: if you play the role.'

When I came into this profession, my first condition to myself and my managers was that I don't want to work every day. As an actor you keep giving, so it's important for you to need the time to take things in.

Art is much more confined by materials than writing is.

The studio is the place for me to really confront my feelings and get it all out. I love being in that space and creating, doing what I love, making art.

As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is to connect with a creative project.

I don't want to come and conquer American films or the American market. I just want to do movies that I care about, stories that I like.

I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.

I've always wanted to write, I've always wanted to direct. The conscious decision was always to not be an actor.

As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.

Political consequences have never really come into my thinking. I didn't think about it when we made 'Maurice' or when I said first I would co-direct and then write the screenplay of 'Call Me'. I was just making something I thought I would enjoy creating.

All of the good things that surround art - you have to embrace the idea that it could be a complete disaster. I think that's what gives it its artistic sparkle is that it really could crash and burn at any moment because you're going out on a limb and being very personal.

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.

Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged.

I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me.

I think you are always influenced by your surroundings and where you grow up. Your environment is always one of the things that shape you, and the music scene in Iceland was a very important factor in shaping me.

I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write.

I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.

I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.

No, 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn't direct it but 'Candyman' and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It's informed everything I've done, even the way scenes are shot in 'Kinsey and 'Gods and Monsters.'

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

It's okay to do a small role in mainstream cinema like 'Aurangzeb' or 'Yaariyan.' But it's films like Rituparno Ghosh's 'Memories Of March' and Avinash Kumar Singh's 'Listen Amaya' that sustain me as an actress.

I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.