Quotes About Art

Everybody says they want good films and when one turns up, they go watch item songs.

I believe in cinema! Unfortunately, 90 per cent of Hindi cinema is non-cinema. Only marketing works here. Even the item songs in these films are an extension of marketing.

Item numbers have existed from time immemorial.

I don't judge people who are in item numbers.

Items numbers have become a part of movies.

Coffee is a language in itself.

The idea of creating a quote-unquote 'retro' world isn't all that appealing to me by itself.

I made a movie in Germany called 'The Chambermaid' - it was very, very small. I think it cost €70,000 to make. I even put some money in and raised some money for it. It was real German arthouse... It goes, somehow, out there on the Internet, and it goes on iTunes.

Just as Jack Lewis could go through a whole life without meeting someone that he loved, so you can go through whole career on the stage, never meeting a play that says the kind of things you feel deeply about!

Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.

I started dancing because of Janet Jackson.

I don't need to own one but I like to look at Diane Arbus's pictures and anything by Jackson Pollock.

I always feel in movies, I don't know if it's because I'm jaded, but I always feel like we don't go far enough.

If I plan to write, I won't be able to write anything good. I just need to kind of jam and let things come.

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

James Franco has turned his life into a real art project. In my opinion, that's the way to live.

I'm rap-game James Franco.

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.

Jamming is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me; I really don't enjoy it.

In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.