Quotes About Art

You have first to experience what you want to express.

Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment.

My god is narrative filmmaking.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I don't think we're done with film by a long shot.

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Is it not enough to dip your tongue into my soul and write poetry?

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

I'm not producing movies to make money

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

I like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that's basically what I want to talk about. Intellectuals that are funny.

In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

I love animated movies in general. I like making them.