Quotes About Artistic

I was in more of the artsy crowd in high school.

A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

I don't tend to be current with anything. I just write the music and allow it to just be whatever it is.

I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

British independent television is exactly the same as independent cinema. Very low budget, interesting, cutting edge stuff.

Music is cyclical, but I've never thought of the music I make as being so off the wall or left field that it wouldn't always have an audience that would relate to it.

If you're in a band, you can dress like a daft teenager for as long as you like. In fact, it's expected of you!

I create vibe-y dance music.

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

I've always loved Broadway, but I never thought I'd actually do it because I was never a full Broadway dancer. And I don't have a big, booming voice.

I grew up learning ballet, and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to be a ballet dancer when I was younger, but at a certain age, I really was more interested in acting.

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

Within TG, we liberated the use of the lyric forever. There was no longer a taboo on what could be discussed in the conceptual format of a song.

Acting requires emotional flexibility and demands, and directing is more cerebral and managerial and a tactical kind of thing.

There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

In certain fight scenes in 'Raging Bull' - for example, the shorter ones - I literally just took the head and tail of the shot and put it together, and it all worked beautifully.

I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to see the pimple on someone's face. I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don't need to see everything perfectly. I don't like it.

BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.

For me, the opportunity to express myself in this way is something I don't take for granted.

I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.

Working with David Lynch was like taking a bullet. A gun at you. 'Lost Highway' is, I think, one of the best films I've ever been in. It'll endure a long, long time.