Quotes About Art

Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it.

I think art always comments on the time and place it was created.

Commerce is in no one's hand and that should not be the only reason to make a film ever.

Commercial success and quality are not necessarily allied.

Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.

The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.

I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.

It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is acting. I don't believe it. I feel whenever you are doing a film, you are acting. So you need to be applauded for that. I won't do art house cinemas. I want to make commercial films. I want my films to make money.

I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.

You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.

'Cabaret' was the most commercial success that I've been involved in.

The commercialization of dubstep isn't something I'm part of.

Commercials are art, too; they're 30-second movies starring people like me. If you look down on the medium, you're never going to book. If you don't love it, do not bother. Find another job you like.

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.

The person that was closest to me growing up was my sister, who died at 19. She was an incredibly powerful girl, deeply committed to art and literature.

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

I don't make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.

At the end of the day, I use music to be able to communicate to people.

Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.