Quotes About Artistry

As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

If directors, actors and writers have the ability to drop their alpha-male egos, you will always get better work. In terms of my own demands, I actually want fewer lines. If I can lose a line and do it with my face, I'd rather do that.

I know how to write fiction well.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret when I started writing more poetry and working for 'Rookie'.

If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.

I still play the fiddle every day. I'm afraid if I don't, it won't know who I am.

I can't remember who said, 'No film is completed, just abandoned,' but I think most filmmakers will tell you that they could endlessly fiddle with their films for the next couple of decades, you know, changing things, altering things.

I consider myself more of a rock 'n' roll fiddler.

I only know one way to sing, and thats me. I cant morph who I am as an artist into two different fields; I can just be who I am at all times.

I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.

I am fierce, yes, but I'm serious about music.

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.

Fifty percent of what I've worked on is never going to get heard, but I think the important thing is just working.

We're not just fighters, we're entertainers.

I want to be an artist, not be in the business of making hit records. Once I figured that out, everything became clear.

If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.

I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together.

I try to fill the stage with my confidence in music. Obviously, this is to offer the fans with the best music.

I don't just like fillers, and I never put a filler on a record. I mean, I want every song on every album that I do to be a potential single.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.