Quotes About Artistry

I would have loved to work with Cranko. I love stories. Even though I like a lot of style - Forsythe, Maliphant - I have this childish side that likes stories.

I think what's hard for me is not that I don't get downtime to chill, it's that I don't get time to make music.

The choices I make - they have to be creative.

I see theatre everywhere, actually. We're all kind of performing a version of ourselves every morning by choosing the clothes and how we appear - but the stage is so emphasising that I really feel comfortable in it.

Bad Name' is just that head-nod, traditional loop over a breakbeat, chopped up, and it sounds like the way I do my thing.

We'd hold a chord for three hours if we could.

I'm a guy who doesn't know the name of the chord, but I know that it sounds good.

There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.

I enjoy being a choreographer.

If I weren't an actor today, I would have been a choreographer for sure.

I will never leave choreography and will keep doing songs, too.

A chorus is not easy.

I love a good chorus, you know? I consider a lot of what I love pop. I consider Mitski pop.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not, like, follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it. You know, it's me who's doing it.

For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.

I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them.

If you're really chosen for music, it just comes to you and you just let it pass through. That's how I create.

When you have the chance to work with Wes Anderson, with Stephen Frears and Chris Weitz and Roman Polanski and Terrance Malick you don't say no.

I have never worked with anyone who I hold in higher esteem than Chris Menges. He's an absolute, bona fide, authentic artist.

There's a chunk of myself in every part I play.

I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.

If you stay in the studio for a long period of time, you start to drive yourself around in circles.

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.