Quotes About Art

I like the idea that songs can communicate in a way no other media can. That's why I write them.

Writing music is something very natural... this is the way to communicate with other people.

I watch films, so I know what it is to be there in a theatre as the audience. So I always want to communicate with them when I make films, but that is not the only thing. I also want to say something which I feel deeply, and which I feel I can connect with the rest of the audience.

Dancing is like - it's another way of communicating, no?

Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society.

Sure, I love people, and I want to communicate with people. I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Fashion shows are really my way of communication.

If you think back to the great French directors it's difficult to think of British film-makers who are comparable.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

I love being on stage, nothing compares to it.

A film, I feel, is a state of mind. A film eventually comes from an idea: based on an idea, you make a decision, and once you make the decision, you keep comparing everything to that, but don't question the decision itself.

Lena Dunham has a very compelling face.

People have given their lives to this industry to make movies compelling.

I actually grew up seeing a lot of classical theater - a lot of Shakespeare - but I have such a passion for music and find that way of telling a story to be really compelling as well.

You need to be a good filmmaker to make a compelling two-minute film as well.

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

I am not competing to be an athlete. I make music.

Competition is all in numbers; it's a numbers game, but I looked at it like it's a passion, and it's art.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

Theater is such a collaborative art. Hollywood is a competitive sport.

For a long time, I couldn't tell somebody how I felt or I couldn't talk about my problems because I felt like I was complaining. Writing would help me or it would be like, I can't tell you how I feel, but I can play you a song.

I have no complaints about 'The Walk.' I made it, and I'm very happy with what happens.

I like it when two sounds complement each other but are way different on a record.