Quotes About Individuality

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work

You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.

I don't look like Catherine Zeta-Jones, so I don't think Hollywood would be that interested in me, to be honest. I just want nice work.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

I have the belief that a person and his art should have one direction; your work should be a synonym for your person - the two shouldn't be separate.

Your first problem is relying on someone else's word. Always depend on yourself. No one will work as hard for you as you will.

You too are a work of art.

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?"

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

If I'm good at something, I'm good at something, and if I'm bad at something, I'm just bad at something. Gender shouldn't have anything to do with any of my work or anything I produce or create.

I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.

As a director, I try not to implement a way for working, for every single actor, across the board. I try to work with each one, on an individual basis.