Quotes About Art

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing.

From the moment I got to Hollywood, I've always felt like I never really got to do what I wanted to do. In general, artists feel that you're never really allowed to accomplish what you would like to accomplish because there's just so much of this system that gets in the way; the business gets in the way of the art.

Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.

The goal, and the ultimate achievement, is to make people feel as well as think.

I am extremely proud of the fact that I have acted in art films.

Although I've acted in several films, dancing has always been my passion.

I love acting.

I find acting fun, and don't want to do away with that. I have never been able to see it as a job. It is another world I go to every once in a while.

There is no right in acting.

Activism and art do go hand in hand, but I am an artist and an 'artivist' within that.

I've always felt that activism and art go hand in hand.

I am not an activist. I am an actor.

I'm just an actor.

There is nothing that I don't like about being an actor.

I'm an actress. It's my passion.

I'm a working actress.

No, I always wanted to be an actress.

My Mother is an actress, so it's always been a part of my life.

I'm very much interested in doing actual theater.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

Adam Shankman has got such love and passion for dance.

I've never adapted a book I didn't love.

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.