Quotes About Artistic

But I am poised to restart qawwali and have a spiritual album of it available.

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

The Police could get away with doing an entire record with really no audible reverb, which I have always admired and thought would be a lot of fun to try to re-create.

I believe that cinema is not only an artistic industry, but there is also a political activity.

'Narcos' was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.

I'm an artist, and an artist doesn't worry about being politically correct when I write.

I'm a musician... not a politician.

There's a few movies I wanted to do, and I didn't get to do them partly because they wanted me to be part of the horse and pony show, getting the money, and I'm just not doing that. There's a few movies that people wanted me to do, but they were too safe.

A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music.

I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

I've wanted to write good pop music, beautiful pop music - not just throwaways. I've always wanted to make it sound luscious and beautiful and cinematic.

You can get a rut where you think you need to create something that sounds like a certain thing - especially with pop music.

In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.

For 'Chungking Express,' the way we shot the film was all handheld and with all this existing light, and that became very popular. Everybody thought it was cool.

When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.

Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You're in a constant debate with a gun at your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it's hard to win the arguments.

In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from popular culture.

I try to create something that draws you in without overthinking it. Something that resonates with you automatically that you don't have to think about. That's what the best pop is about: Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Nirvana - these guys made some of the most authentic and popular music.

I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.

Directing is not about gender. Directing is individual to the actual individual. From woman to woman, directing is completely different. It's about giving more than half the population a chance to express themselves, you know what I mean? It doesn't always mean it's going to be more sensitive.

I was a child prodigy. Like Michelangelo, who could draw a perfect circle at age five. I was extremely gifted. I could paint a perfect portrait of someone at age five.

When I was painting portraits and - shall we say? - rather allegorical heads, which is the figurative work which immediately preceded the direction I have since gone, these images were always of a very fixed, rigid quality, and, of course, my work still has this aspect.