Quotes About Passion

I have problems with guitars, I hammer away at it sometimes and I also do little intimate picks, I'm always looking at new guitars and little extra tweaks and stuff, I like to mix it up a bit.

I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.

I feel like I've been picky through the years and would do one movie a year or one movie every two years, and I want to work a lot more. So if I can find something that just happens right away as a director, I'll do it if I really love it, but otherwise, I want to keep working as an actor and getting better.

I don't want to be picky and say that I only want to do films.

When I make a picture, I make love.

I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken.

I did 'Dirty Picture' when I was only 24 years old. From there on, I kept on acting and learning about acting.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.

I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think there's another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do.

I have always loved taking pictures. When I was young, I would carry a small camera with me on the sets.

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

Music is like art, so I just paint all my pictures and put 'em out there.

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

Some people take pictures; I write songs.

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.