Quotes About Art

The question is - did Richard Attenborough have a right to make 'Gandhi?' And did Danny Boyle have a right to make 'Slumdog Millionaire?' Quite honestly, if they didn't have the right to make these films, I had no right to make 'Elizabeth.'

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

I can't tell you how much more important watching 'Hellraiser' is to my music than listening to a Milton Babbitt piece or something.

I started under my master, Etienne Decroux, who taught me a new grammar for mime he called statuary mime. This grammar brings style creations. Without it, no art survives.

Mime is in our daily life and with little effort, we can all perfect the art form.

I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.

I just started mimicking what I heard and singing along to it.

I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

I think anyone can actually sing. It's the mindset. Singing is imitation.

Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

Just because somebody works in miniature does not diminish or invalidate their contributions to the art form compared to someone who works in live action.

Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.

I think 'Tron' is a good example of minimalism.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

People don't know major and minor chords; they know what they like. I feel the same way.

I'm sure that no matter what I'm involved in, I'll always be doing comics, at least in some minor capacity.

I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.

When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist.

Obviously, when you do something with drama and comedy in it - and by that, I mean a scene that has drama and comedy in it - you know the minute you introduce music, you're either scoring the drama or you're scoring the comedy, and therefore the scene becomes either dramatic or comedic.

I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset.

At first, I didn't want to do unicorns. The artist in me said no. Then I thought, 'Wait a minute: this is commercial art. Let's do what's going to sell.'