Quotes About Art

I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?'

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

I've always acted; in fact, I can't remember a time when I was not. When I was little, cinema was a game, then my father's job and now mine.

Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?

I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that.

I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema.

For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.

My favorite music is when the sound is supplementing the message. I don't think it's dramatic; it's cinematic.

I love films that take place over a short period of time, and I feel that those films are in our cinematic DNA.

A period film is a gift for a cinematographer.

I find inspiration for my works of art in my studio and in the squared circle from all sorts of places.

I play the didgeridoo using circular breathing.

I don't believe in preachy films. I don't like such films. Having said that, I don't even enjoy films that only 'entertain.' That way, even the circus entertains.

Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?'

To me drag is like a superhero mask.

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

I think there's escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If it's done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art.

If I can make a dance-based movie like 'ABCD', then I was sure I could make a superhero movie, too.

I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my quotidian life.

I think it's a bit like saying a painter does a painting everyone loves and it's 40% blue paint, so from now on you have to paint paintings that are 40% blue. That's the film industry at its most blunt, which is why it's constantly bats and spiders and superheroes.

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.