Quotes About Artistry

I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly to the U.S. market. It demeans filmmaking when they do that.

Stop-motion has limitations, any form of filmmaking does, but stop-motion has a lot of limitations.

Boldness, sensuality and an unapologetic way of showing things, that is part of my films.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.

I'm 100 percent in control of my artistry, music, and finances.

Legacy above finances; artistry above fame.

I like to work with directors where you feel they make the movies not for the audience, but make them for themselves. They don't care if it's a success financially. That's what I like.

I just have to sell enough records to continue financing making more records.

When I was younger, I worked for several years composing music for commercials, but I was very happy to give that up. I didn't really like it, it was a way of financing my bands.

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo.

'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.

Sudhir Mishra is one the finest directors; he knows how to manipulate an actor's emotion, sensibilities and expressions.

A lot of artists are aspiring to fill an archetype as opposed to being themselves. Even if they can't quite put their finger on it, fans can tell.

Dad had a way of defining himself. He couldn't put his finger on whether it was rock 'n' roll or country.

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.

I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.