Quotes About Art

I've been playing drums since I was 7.

I didn't sing, but I did play the drums.

Look, I love to sit in with small groups and play the drums. What's wrong with that?

I'll always dance for fun, but for work? I've done it, dude.

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.

If I make a happy, happy movie one day, I'll think it's dull.

There's sacrificing for your art, and then there's just being dumb.

With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty.

I feel my duty is to make music.

I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.

I can't look at 'WALL-E' or 'Finding Nemo' or 'Up' and look at in the same way as people outside of the company would look at it. Each one of them had angst.

With every one of our films, we try to touch emotions, but we don't try to touch the same emotions each time.

Earlier we would do theatre and cinema both at a time and would consider TV only if we were offered.

I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

I'm a Coen Brothers fan - especially their early work.

Not only did I cross-dress at 10, playing Rosalind in 'As You Like It,' I also found myself in a cross-dressed part at 60, when I played Lady Bracknell in 'The Importance of Being Earnest.'

Western music is alien to my ears.

One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.

Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

Film is like eating to me. It feels completely natural.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

Seeing the first edit is the worst.