Quotes About Art

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

If you want to make an anarchist film, make it with a corporation.

People like to put music and art up against the dehumanizing character of commerce and business corporations.

Color correction is one of my things.

I've been singing since I could talk correctly.

I think I make good beats, but when it's not mastered correctly, it can definitely make it sound like it's not a good beat, and that has been an issue sometimes with me in the past.

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.

MAC Cosmetics is incredible for lips; I always wear it.

When a city lends itself to film shoots, it becomes cosmopolitan.

When we talk about books, we rarely talk about the economic side of writing, especially of writing literary works, and that, at base, it's a pretty costly enterprise.

Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.

Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

My mum was an art teacher, so we used to have fantastic dressing-up costumes when we were little.

I saw a picture of Max Schreck as Count Orlok in a book in my elementary school and I lost my mind.

I love to listen to traditional country music. That's where I get a lot of inspiration.

You don't change country music; it changes you.

I didn't grow up with country music, but I appreciate the lyrics.

I would have enjoyed playing some county cricket and learning my art that way, but I never had any ambitions at all to play for England, that's for sure.

Im a maximalist, so Im probably not very elegant. My art is not a coup de grce. Its a war of attrition.

I've worked with Robert Altman a couple of times too.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

If you make something from your heart, of course you want it to connect with the people.

I don't have an album cover with me on a broomstick.