Quotes About Art

I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

I love theater. I started in theater when I was nine years old.

I made lots of short films, about nine or ten short films. And then I made a television film called 'This Little Life.'

I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.

I'm hoping to have a ninth decade like Matisse's.

I don't really like Nirvana that much.

I'd love to see a Nirvana biopic. I loved them when I was younger. I really like jazz music, so I'd like to see a Billie Holiday biopic - she was a fascinating woman.

It takes so much effort to make anything, any type of art. I try to find the good in everything; if I don't like it, fine, no big deal, but I don't really want to voice that online.

There are no boundaries while enacting negative characters and we are free to perform in any manner, it's fun.

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

I wasn't trained as an actor at all. I had studied painting in America and had no clue about acting when I came back.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it.

When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.

I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you're female, you're maybe dealing with different issues.

Music is music - it makes no difference what it is. I can like Slipknot and Public Enemy equally.

There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.

I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't like.

When you're making an independent film, there is no guarantee that anyone is going to see it, ever.

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.