Quotes About Art

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.

Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's encouraged to want less, you'll end up with less.

A sexy picture can come from anyone who forms an intimacy with their subject. You can take a sexy picture of your cat if you want to.

Often, people who want to make interesting films simply don't have the money to do it.

There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i don't really want to be part of stamping the boundaries on a scene.

I'd love to major in Music. I love what I do, but I want to really understand it, more in depth.

I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.

Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I'm really passionate about.

Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

Music makes me want to dance but I'm not sure that's something anybody wants to observe.

I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.

Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.

I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.

I think it's very important for any actor to eventually produce, and create the projects they want to create. I believe it's all a part of the same art form, which is storytelling.