Quotes About Artistry

The things I want to do mostly involve writing.

I'm very happy to be involved with great filmmakers.

I want to be involved in lots of different things. I want to write and direct, and I make music.

My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.

The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child.

I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.

I'd like to do something that involves music.

There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.

I'm an Irish guy who loves his music.

We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams.

I am never excited to play through a song all the way, because it can reveal more flaws that mean more work. For some reason, I always have an irrational fear that the song will never be finished.

'Jaago Zara' was never going to be irrelevant. It had great lyrics, and was a great song even back in the day.

Actors love to do good work irrespective of country and borders.

An actor is an actor irrespective of age.

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

I am a filmmaker and I have no issues with anyone, I am a director and I am just here to tell a great story.

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

I did a lot of magic shows growing up. My dad is a graphic designer so he helped me brand myself and create a logo. So I was just rollin' with the magician crowd for a while. But I was really young, 10 to 13, doing table magic and balloon animals at this Italian restaurant.