Quotes About Art

I've never been very good at creating absolute music, which has no non-musical dimension to it. I think that is why filmmakers gravitated toward my work.

I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.

When you do a half-hour show, there's only so much you can do. At best, you're going to get a character with two-and-a-half dimensions.

The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.

I was never really interested in fashion before I started to work with Dior. I didn't see fashion as an art form.

Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

You cant be an artist without going to art school. Its impossible. Art schools like being plunged into a sheep dip that inoculates you against cliches. It gives you a sensibility you need to get into the art world.

I am a Kathak dancer, and have got an advanced diploma in it.

When you make shorts, people don't get paid. It's mostly about being diplomatic that you're going to do a masterpiece of short cinema.

I like to direct for the big screen.

Let my critics direct a movie if they think it's so easy!

It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

I don't direct movies for a living.

ABBA was a direct influence on me.

It is my passion to direct movies.

I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.

I don't direct the plays of others.

I will watch any film directed by Imtiaz Ali.

Of all the films that I have directed, I think 'Lootera' is the one that could have been better.

I've directed fragmentarily at the Herod Atticus, but never before a popular laiko unitals concert.

I'm happy directing films. On television, the direction takes your entire life away.