Quotes About Art

I had some great times doing competitions, but I have always been more into making movies because making movies is more about art and expressing yourself in a creative way.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

My entire life was making movies.

Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

Most movies aren't any good.

Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos.

Sometimes when you do big movies, you can lose sometimes a little bit of soul.

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.

That's part of show business: the moving.

I think it's one thing to be able to dance, and it's another thing to learn all the wonderful moments of dance because in my day... it was the moving of dance.

Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.

Once the director calls for action, we act; we stop when he says 'Cut.' It is sort of like meditation - unknowingly, you are moving out of yourself, becoming someone else. That is why I consider acting a form of meditation.

When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.

I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.

As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece.

I listen to music. I particularly love Mozart.

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.

I love working in multiple languages, and these days good films are being made across the country.

Computers are extremely helpful and amazing for a multitude of scientific areas, but for me, when it comes to creation, they are insufficient and slow. Therefore, all of my efforts are to stay away from that beast.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.