Quotes About Art

I like music that not only has a pop melody to it but is also deeply about something.

The feeling that you want the listener to get, you should get yourself when you first hit that chord, and that melody comes to mind.

Well yes, I think melody is still my forte.

I think you can do a lot with lyrics and melody.

I was an audience member before I'm a filmmaker. All I've tried to do as a filmmaker was to make movies I want to see.

Sometimes memorable music doesn't necessarily have to be a hit.

I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.

If I know I have to memorize lines, I'm really gonna try to memorize lines. It's hard for me sometimes, because somebody wrote these words and you're trying really hard to get them the way they said it.

Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.

Just memorizing and emoting, for that you get paid. But that isn't acting.

I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.

It's time for there to be roles in the ballet where two men can fall in love, and a woman can lead a company of 20 dancers that include both men and women.

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.

Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

Arsene Wenger's mentality has been to bring together footballers who bring happiness in our sport, the type of players I like to watch. I've followed him since he was in Japan, and he always was a guardian of the art of football - football with happiness and football played well.

My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.

Music is an essential part of any film, but when it comes to Mercury' it actually became a medium of communication.

It wasn't until I saw 'Rocky' that I realized movies could affect people beyond mere entertainment.

I've always liked the idea of merging esoteric art cinema with down-and-dirty exploitation films.

Even before we had a band, the merging of music and movies just seemed so perfect.

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

Gone are the days when the merit of a song was measured by the success of the movie.