Quotes About Creativity

I would like to portray something that would challenge the actor in me.

I have always chosen to portray roles which inspired me and mostly that I enjoy it in the first place.

Even though the 'Shooter' character on TV is so close to the real-life me, I'm still playing with ways to creatively portray that character.

I love movie musicals because I think there is an amount of emotional honesty that's needed to portray someone who feels so deeply that all they can do is break into song.

Freestyling helps me portray the emotion that I'm feeling right there instead of writing it at home and having to add to it.

You have to add something of yourself to the portrayal.

How I'm portrayed in films has more to do with the filmmaking and what they need in the story than anything else. I'm the same person I've always been, I just get used in different ways according to the filmmakers' needs - which is fine with me; it makes for great films.

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored.

I don't get fazed by things easily. I don't really care about much; I'm just not interested in a lot. I'm just interested in the well being of my close ones, my music, the message I'm portraying, how my efforts are contributing to society.

There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.

It didn't take me very long to realize that modeling wasn't very satisfying. I was always asking people, 'How are you going to set up this shot? How will it be lit?' And they'd say, 'Stop. Just pose.' I had a problem with that.

I have a file - my character box - anything from magazines - a pose, a face - I go through these files and arrange a whole person out of them. Because I think what you wear, it says something. It's not necessarily you, but what you want to project.

In manga, nothing actually moves, and you just have to draw the poses in each panel, but in anime, you have to draw the movements between those poses.

My style is very strong poses and expressions.

Most photo shoots are a beautiful dress, a natural location, and poses.

The more you put out there, the more you have to resolve. 'Air' is the most literary comic I've written so far, and that poses problems.

I understand that people want to see just the posh side of fashion, but fashion is a lot of work.

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.