Quotes About Art

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.

More than my films being influenced by manga I was indelibly impressed by Manga, and that definitely comes out in the films.

I love movies. They've always influenced the music i've done.

My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

Blues, rock, and soul are part of the music I make, but there are Indian influences, too.

Theatre and cinema have been major influences in my life.

I think that if you hear music young, whatever music you hear influences you. I'm white, but I've been influenced by black music.

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

Music is definitely influential on how I approach my scenes.

The Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young. For a brief moment, they were arguably the most influential aesthetic provocateurs in the world.

I consider myself an 'actorvist.' When I say that, what I mean is that I use my art to inform my activism and to be my activism sometimes, but I also use my activism in my art.

I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.

Honestly, I think, as an artist, it's everything that's in your life that informs what you do. So, obviously, growing up in Cleveland has played a big role in how I see the world.

I think TV, films, and the stage inform each other. It's good to go back and forth.

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

I did have a lot of years watching and appreciating dance and theater and all of those kind of things, and it has informed the way that I work with actors and the way I approach things.

As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative.

I couldn't really say that a repressive society would result in creative art. But somehow it does help, it is an ingredient, it acts as a Catalyst to a man who is committed.