Quotes About Art

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

If someone asked, 'What are your films like?,' the best I can come up with is that they're, like, a fine balance between comedy and drama. And they deal mainly with the clumsiness of humanity.

If you start as a Christian artist trying to be mainstream, you're done from the beginning.

An actor is an actor. There should be no labelling - mainstream actor, art film actor, serious actor, comic actor.

That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.

I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it's an art form. It's not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don't like the way you look.

Makeup, in general, is amazing.

We're making the music that the people are asking us for.

Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.

Making movies, even though it's a business, is also an art, and sometimes you don't hit the bull's-eye.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

I like making movies.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

I love making movies.

You can't make a movie about making movies - it's boring.

You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people.

Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.

I would like to start acting, making movies.

With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.

The most interesting stuff happens when an authoritarian government removes itself a little and gives this margin of freedom. And then art is grabbed with both hands.

I really like Mark Mothersbaugh.

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.