Quotes About Artistic

I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

A successful film begins by choosing a director whose creative vision will define the choices made by everyone involved in the film.

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

I often found that my favorite scene that I shoot is often one that I cut out, like in 'The Last Castle' and 'The Contender.' If you look at the deleted scenes, some of the best scenes never made it into the film.

I am capable of bad taste - deliberately.

I put a lot of pressure on myself, I can't say today is a bad day, I can't do that to myself. Whatever it takes, I have to deliver a scene.

I will do a dance number only if I'm convinced about how the director would present me. I'd do something only if the script demands.

What happens with writing a song and demoing it, for me the demo always becomes the master.

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

I felt impelled to write. It felt demonic, and I wanted to improve, the way some people habitually pick up a guitar and get better at playing it and making up songs.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator.

My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'

I can't deny 'Fleabag''s a very personal piece, but it's not autobiographical.

I never wanted to be an actor. Because when you're an actor, you depend on other people to come to you with scripts. You can't create your own. Unless you are a Raj Kapoor, who was a producer-director.

It's hard to describe my style. People will tell me that I'm really flowy.

I would describe my sound in the field of electro pop. A combination of deep yet simple lyrics coupled with easy beats.

Film has to describe and show.

I love truly forward-thinking music, and I'm not even sure I'd describe my work as that, even.

I can't imagine David Lean justifying why he went to the desert to shoot 'Lawrence of Arabia.'

In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially if he wrote part of the script himself - is clearly more the author of the movie.

I changed the layout of comic books in general. When I came in, layout design wasn't really part of what you did. It was all just panels, panels, panels. So when I came in, I thought, 'Nah, let's change that,' and I designed the page.

I'm a creative guy, a designer, a customer.

I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.