Quotes About Artistic

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.

I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.

I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.

My thing about demos is that you usually prefer them to the finished thing.

I always, as a firm rule, make my movies based on how inexpensively I can make them because that means the more freedom I'm going to have.

Acting is certainly my first love, but writing and directing has been on the 'to do' list for a long time.

I have been into acting and direction, but choreography is my first love.

Music will always be my first love, but it was time to diversify into something that had the ability to really create a financial legacy.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to try the retro style in the first place, because many musicians have left masterpieces in the genre, and I felt burdened by this.

The only reason I came to L.A. in the first place was to tell stories and make movies. Whatever way you can do that - if you can do that - at whatever level, that's rewarding.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.

'Nova' was one of the tracks that inspired me to create 'Fade,' which later became 'Faded'. It has a beautiful melody, and the way it progresses throughout the whole track is just amazing!

'Thursday' is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.

It is said an artist spends their whole life trying to get to the place where their heart was first opened up. 'Rent' was that place for me.

My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same.

I get lonely - I'm not going to lie about that... I kind of signed up in my mind that I'm giving myself wholeheartedly, full-throttle to my creative life, and I don't want to be distracted.

I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

A fully engaged imagination is essential to the spiritual practice of the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana School, whose artistic tradition is in service of consciousness transformation.

For me, it's not like I am going to look at the money the director's film has made before their film... For me, it is about working with the director whose work I have admired.