Quotes About Art

The world's a better place since I chose music.

Acting is what I chose to do. It's what I feel I need to do.

Because I had the children, I chose to have my studio in my home. I wanted them to understand my work and learn how to work.

I chose music and that's what I do.

From the beginning, music has been the chosen way to express feelings that words alone can't.

All over the world, actors and actresses are chosen for their performing skills. Not how they look or what they wear. It is all about how they act, how they emote.

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

Many times, that's how people see Christian art or Christians making art: They see the art as having an agenda.

Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.

I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.

Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.

I don't know anything about life, but everything about cinema.

I want to be part of great cinema. That is my only aim.

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.

I love Giuseppe Tornatore, the guy that did 'Cinema Paradiso.'

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.

I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.

I love being part of cinema and I don't see myself doing anything else.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

A lot of cinema is about the game of authenticity - do you feel it's real?

For me, cinema is happiness.

I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.