Quotes About Art

I'm not one of those people who can cry on cue. If I have to cry in an audition, I'm like, 'Okay, let me see what I can do.'

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

There isn't a route to success. Make a film. If people like it, you'll be okay. There is no route that I know of.

I've always really loved cinematography and glamorous old Hollywood movies and they go hand in hand.

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.

I've been in love with music since I was old enough to establish my taste.

You can only make the work that you have to make. And I am old enough now to know that I can't start making shows that are going to win awards. That way madness lies.

I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.

I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz.

I've always like 'Dragonball Z' and 'Naruto,' that kind of drawing. My older brother draws so he was always drawing 'Dragonball Z' characters and so I got into it from there.

I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.

Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.

I love singing; I just don't get to do it enough. The times that I do it, once a year, every year with 'Divas Simply Singing,' is a truly joy to me, but I'd love to do it some more.

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

If I don't do a bit of theatre at least once a year, I feel depleted and starved.

It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.

I hope one day that I'll get to make another horror film; I'd love to.

You really only have to use one half of your brain when you're deejaying.

One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing.