Quotes About Artistry

'Room' is a very subtly-made film, and directing awards tend to go to the flashier stuff, but it's the Director's section of the academy that make the decision, so I'm very proud they can see something in what I directed and wanted to reward it.

Directing is so dope to me, man, 'cause it doesn't necessarily have to be your material. You're making someone else's material come to life. There's something amazing about that.

There's something that comes into you that's so exciting when you're directing.

I think I would like directing. I really like coming at the work that way.

The things that I'm interested in directing are fiction, because then you're not married to a particular reality.

I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.

The sensibility I brought to directing was similar to what I bring when I write.

Whether it's making music or directing a video, whatever we do we do it quickly.

I have not thought of pairing with somebody for music direction and will continue composing music by myself.

My work is not directly about the social or political.

Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves.

There is no way I'll ever write an album for Avril Lavigne or Christina Aguilera. I just couldn't do it. There is no way I could ever do it because my musical process is about being directly involved with whatever I'm going through in life.

The last thing on earth I wanted to do was make a movie that plays directly to a sort-of frat boy audience, you know?

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.

Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.

I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

I like to just work with great directors.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the character.

When I first started, it was a dirty word to say you made clothes for people to wear... I was a little ashamed of it. You didn't always feel you were this amazing creative force.