Quotes About Artistry

And Brooke Elliott is a great actress.

Even if you plan your book, the actual writing is unplanned.

I was addicted to playing music.

I've played a lot of people where someone will say, 'This is based on my sister, and such and such happened.' But I don't think I ever played someone who, 'This is their name, and this is their address, and this is what they looked like.'

I think about a lot of my favorite directors, and I think about their first films, and I have great admiration for the earthiness of those films.

I admire Akira Kurosawa. I have a deep admiration for him and I would love to make films like that.

I admire people who are creative.

There are many actors I really like and whose work I admire.

If you succeed at all, you find yourself suddenly working with artists whose work you don't just admire but you deeply love.

I would love to write a song with the Everly brothers. But it's probably best not to work with someone you admire: they'll just show up your inadequacies.

I admire many actors, including Amitabh Bacchhan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Irfan Khan, and many more.

The actors I admire always have something to say, or a level of poetry, belief, activism or intelligence about what they do or how they feel.

It feels good to be able to work with a director and actors I've admired.

An Elias performance is worth the price of admission.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

I believe in artists. I'm an advocate for artists.

No one is mediating aesthetic choices on an OPN album other than myself.

The exciting thing about Bleachers and fun. are they're different, and they're aesthetically different in many ways. But it's also like my role is very different, and that's cool.

It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.

You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it affects them.

I don't make records so I can sit down afterward and listen to them. I make them so other people can sit down and listen to them.

Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

I think there'll always be a kid with a guitar with a song in his heart that's going to turn me on - that's as far as I can see. Whether lots of people agree with that, I'm not sure.