Quotes About Influence

I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists.

If somebody says, 'Well, what are your favorite composers?' really, what they are saying is, 'What are your favorite composers apart from Bach?' Because obviously, Bach is your favorite composer if you are involved in music at all.

You never know what you're going to learn from which pieces and which composers and colleagues are going to influence that thing you think you know.

My father Apresh Lahiri and mother Bansari Lahiri were great composers of their time.

The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance.

I couldn't comprehend why someone would film themselves alone in their bedroom and put it online. I thought that was so bizarre. Now I can't imagine not putting my life online and talking to a camera alone in my bedroom; it's become my life.

As we've come along, we've educated our audience, getting them to understand that brands do not compromise entertainment. For us, they enhance it. They enable it.

The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.

I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

The government can become so elitist and concentrate on elitist interests. To help the government, you must constantly hold its attention.

I can't really affect anything else other than when I'm on the pitch, so I try and concentrate on that.

My father was an MLA and I've grown up knowing the kind of stuff that goes behind the working of a party and the role of the party people, and I used to think that one day I too would be a part of it. But when acting happened, politics took a backseat in my mind and I concentrated more into building my acting career.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.

I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.

You know, my concern is that even if Cambridge Analytica has dissolved as a company, its capabilities haven't.

As far as I'm concerned, any work you get is because people have heard other work you've done.

I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.

One of the reasons why I'm speaking out is because I think that it's really concerning that no one has really investigated Cambridge Analytica and its role in the 2016 election.

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees.

Kids started coming to my concert, and I realized that I had sense of responsibility.

My first concert was Pantera.