Quotes About Art

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.

Christina Ricci

Films cannot change anybody's life. That's a load of crap.

If I don't create, I don't exist.

The more you reason the less you create.

An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.

I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

I think everyone that creates has to cope with the fact that people actually don't give you money because they like you, but because they get something out of it.

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.

I love the experience the theater creates for a community of people.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

Art, when done well, creates empathy.

Cooking is creating emotion.

I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.

If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.

Creating anything is hard.

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.