Quotes About Art

Films are neither true nor false. That includes my films, as well as others. They may make claims that are true or false, but films are too complex. They have too many ingredients.

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.

I was the nerd. Because I was reading. I wasn't into sports. I was really into art. Very geekish about comics. Assumed gay.

When I first started drawing the earliest incarnation of 'Optic Nerve,' I hadn't even been on a date; I hadn't had a romantic relationship of any kind yet, so in a way, I was almost writing science fiction.

I know that some people who move into film lose their nerve for the stage.

I've taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

The great thing about scenes that involve nervous breakdowns - in the little experience I have doing them - is that there's no way to craft it. You just have to do it, and it sort of crafts itself in just being incredibly messy.

In the art world, sentimentality and intimacy and the emotive side of lives are considered very uncool. There's nervousness around intimacy.

I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to become a psychotherapist.

A lot of people say I always play neurotic women. Well, who doesn't play neurotic women?

It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.

I think art should stand in its own neutral place, because I think that's how reality always is - it's this duality of being both hopeless and also full of hope.

I love the power of theater. I think it's an experience you never forget.

Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.

I'll never forget my first Art Basel.

As an artist, what I'm looking for isn't the answers but the questions. Art saved my life, and I'm sure that it could save the lives of many people. If it's not art, find your place. But never give up.

Film is a machine: you never stop.

I will never stop performing on stage.

If you don't see me act, my work is done. The actor must never take the character beyond the scope of the movie.

Music is never-ending, that's what I love about it. Even after we're dead, this music will still exist... that's the best bit. That's metal.

Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.

When we started on 'Coraline,' there was a whole host of things that we had no idea how we were going to do. Because we were making films in a way that had never really been done before, we were taking this hundred-year-old art form and bringing it into a new era by embracing technology and innovation.

It's exciting to work with new directors with new ideas.