Quotes About Art

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

The show was called 'Jean-Paul Sartre and Ringo.' Bonnie Hunt was in the cast and she made the biggest impression on me. That show just blew me away. I couldn't believe these people were doing this. So that had a big effect on me.

That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

My background is in improv and writing.

River City Improv set the stage for my career.

There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught.

You're always starting with a nugget of truth, whether it's a song or an improv scene.

Improv is a disposable art form, but it's kind of freeing in that way, too, because things can fail, and the audience is a little more forgiving.

Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s.

Theatre worked as a big boost and improved my film career.

I think I still like science and art better, but geometry is a big improvement over algebra.

Cutting improvisation is really hard, because things don't match, and you end up with some bad cuts sometimes. But we'd rather have the bad cuts and the great improv.

With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation.

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

When you make a film, you never know how it will turn out, especially when you improvise it.

Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should.

I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist.

Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.

I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still learning my craft and will be until the day I drop dead at my computer. In my opinion, art isn't something that can be perfected. There's always room for improvement.

I never think any song really feels like a 'hit' - a song either feels good or bad, in my opinion.

The first show I did was 'The Nutcracker' ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning.