Quotes About Artistry

I express myself as an artist in different ways.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

Every director works differently.

I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.

I am never happy with what I do, so I try not to watch stuff that is filmed with me in it because I am always like, 'Oh, I could have done that a little bit better,' or, 'I could have done that differently - that riff could have been a little better.'

One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.

It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.

Guitar players I find kind of boring - and that's not meant as a dig. I find myself boring.

I think my voice isn't that easy to digest.

As a musician you're always your own worst critic and you're always digging into your songs and evaluating your own self-worth of things.

I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

For me, directing a film is like confining myself. I want to do something beyond direction. I can conceive stories, write screenplays, etc. That's better for me.

I only want to write. I don't care about directing, really. I've tried it, and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.

I do like directing other people's material.

I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

I love directing.

I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good.

I know that when I'm writing, I always want to be directing.

Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.