Quotes About Individuality

I have a brain, I have a uterus, and they both work.

In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

To progress we must do the work as individuals, but then we must come together and work together.

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."

I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you believe me? If you do, I've done my work.

You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.

I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.

I don't want to discount the beautiful work that the fashion houses do, but somehow, just focusing on what you're wearing feels reductive.

This is very much part of my style, I work a lot on the back ­- I love the back of clothes for men. I love even T-shirts printed behind. I think, "Why do you want to show only the front?"

I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

I have very, very specific ideas about how I want to do my work and how I want to be perceived and to the point of ridiculousness sometimes.

If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought.

I don't do any corporate work.

I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.

You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.