Quotes About Art

For some producers who are technical-minded, making the song sound good is easy, and getting the emotion into the song is harder.

There's actually a lot of producers that I like to listen to.

I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.

Producing should be a creative responsibility.

I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.

I haven't modelled since I was 12 - that was a one-time thing, and I did it as a kid to make a little money to save up for university. Acting is my first love as well as writing and eventually producing and directing.

You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person. A lot of people think they have to be producing in order to maintain that identity.

Producing a drama is particularly difficult.

Be it acting, writing, directing or producing, I love cinema. I love the art of telling stories and I'm happy doing one of the above or all of the above.

I too once thought of producing a musical play on Tyagaraja. People fell at my feet, saying please don't commit such a folly.

I identify myself with the male gaze, I grew up with the male gaze, I've been excited by the male gaze. I'm a product of that culture.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

I always make music as an art - it's never been a product for me.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make.

It's a product of two poles - there's the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it.

It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.

If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it.

Production is something I've never come to terms with.