Quotes About Art

It's really amazing to see what you imagined brought to screen.

You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.

Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they'd see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them.

I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.

I couldn't have imagined working on a film I didn't believe in.

That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

Sometimes art imitates life.

Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.

Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.

When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.

It's very interesting how life imitates art, and art imitates life; I find, whenever I read scenes of some magnitude, I'm like, 'Oh, I feel like I've experienced this,' or 'I am experiencing this,' or 'I might start to experience it soon.'

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

I wouldn't disrespect myself or my art with any imitations.

As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself.

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

Generally, when it comes to covers, I try and add elements that may not take your immediate attention but really become important the more you look at them.

Being on stage is, like, my favorite. The immediate gratification. That's my favorite.

Performing a play or a musical or something is obviously an incredible rush, but I don't think you get that immediate response like with comedy unless you get a round of applause or whatever.

It's not immediately categorisable. I don't know what to say when anyone asks what the 'Boosh' is.

The Malayalam audience knows me as an art film actress, and I am fine with that because I know that such films come from the heart. It's difficult to do them, but the satisfaction you get is immense.

Making films requires the creative skills you'd expect, but it also demands immense non-creative skills, like the ability to raise all that money and the savviness to work the studio's politics.