Quotes About Art

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

I love UCB Chelsea. There is, to me, no stage like it.

The camera and I have always had good chemistry.

I just wanted to make music, because it's how I get stuff off my chest. I want it to always feel like my escape.

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

I like a lot of that Chicago stuff, house music.

I love that movie 'Chicago.'

I don't think I make 'Chick Flicks.'

I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.

I went to an art school, so I was a choir boy.

If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

You choose the film, and then the film chooses everyone else; a film decides everything on its own.

Problems arise only when an artist chooses to be above the art. Not otherwise.

You've got to chop back the performance like a rose bush. That's when it's beautiful.

Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.

I don't want to do acting as a chore or a job.

While I love dancing, and even acting in 'ABCD' - 'Anybody Can Dance' - was fun, I remain, at heart, a choreographer.

I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.

I used to do semi-classical dance as a child; I did not have a choreographer, but my mother gave me a cassette to learn from.

My choreography is very classically based.

I'd never really shot action scenes before, but I realized early on that is very much like shooting choreography and dance.

I studied dance and choreography in New York and even taught people there.