Quotes About Art

I don't believe that films can be compared to each other as each one is a work of art and deserves appreciation on its own merits.

I really have a lot of respect for music, the art form of music. It's my whole life. I don't care about any of that other stuff. And I have always felt that way. I'll build a career on my own merits, my own hard work and nothing else.

Well, chainsaw art is when you pick up a log and carve a mermaid or a dolphin or dogs or bears or whatever. I saw some people doing it in Malibu in the early '90s and I couldn't get it out of my head.

I saw David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a week to see it.

It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.

Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess!

We need music that makes complete sense to us, and that's how 'Mess' came about.

Films with a message just make me laugh.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

I can use movie as a language. Not only could it send a good message, I could let people know about my thinking and how I see the world, how I see the colour, how I see the music, how I see everything.

I don't believe films should have a message, but 'Saleem' does.

I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

We love making movies. We got into the business to make movies. At the end of the day, whether you're doing a low budget film or a big budget film, you want it to do well and you want people to see it. That's the whole point. You want to put some kind of message in it.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

I try not to look for messages in films.

There may be people who try to imitate art when they get dressed and people who just get dressed to cover themselves up, but I guess that both send out messages and communicate their ideas and feelings through their looks.

I love that theatre can be political. You can go watch a play; it sends out messages, and you can go away thinking differently to the way you thought about it before.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that, it can either make things fantastic or really messy.