Quotes About Contemporary

I'm a bit of a traditionalist, but I kind of mangle things as I perform in a contemporary way.

Where I have come unstuck sometimes has mostly been to do with the stories not being quite right or not connecting with a contemporary audience.

I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV.

Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film.

I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.

I'm interested in teasing out the contemporary issues in what I'm working on, however old the piece might be, whenever I'm working on it.

'City Of Black And White' was me trying to do something more mature, more adult contemporary.

With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters feel as much as possible like characters that you would know.

London can be a platform to look at what living in contemporary Britain is all about.

As an actor, my desire was always to be different, there was a desire to associate yourself with projects that bring about the contemporary situation.

It always felt as though there was a wall between me and contemporary dance. I didn't know how to get into it.

I still listen to Radio 1. I never really matured or progressed to Radio 2 or even Radio 4, like most of my contemporaries.

Maybe people who aren't too interested in period pieces will be now because 'Bridgerton' is so contemporary, so modern.

I like always to be contemporary. I like to deal with the things of today.

I especially like to collect contemporary art.

There's traditionally been a large disconnection in contemporary art between the audience and the artist. Generally, audiences are looking towards what they like, and I can tell you, that's the last thing on an artist's mind.

With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then I eventually went to music college and did a two-year course in contemporary music and then just played in endless bands, cover bands, jazz bands.

In the contemporary world, artists are almost entirely self-referential.

Some shows do nosedive at the end, or some piece of content could become incredibly controversial and affect the way the show is seen.

I want to do more new-age content, look beyond conventional cinema.

There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

It's important to stay current and fresh.