Quotes About Art

I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story.

What kind of shorts I wear has nothing to do with music.

Show business is my life.

I'm not good at doing show business; I'm a theatre person. I don't reveal anything about my life.

I wanted to show people that there's nothing wrong with trying to make something sacred.

Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don't want people to know.

Because I'm not doing it for the money, I'm doing it because I feel like that story needs to be told or clarified, or something needs to be shown about that.

I'd made this film called 'This Little Life,' and it went round the fests and won awards and did well.

I don't do movies for the awards. The awards are made for the films. The films are not made for the awards.

I would like to be good at macrame. I look at them in awe.

Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome.

Making films is hard. Awesome, but hard.

Fight scenes are like learning a dance. You learn it move by move, and then you put it all together and it looks awesome when you edit it together. It's great!

If you can get your movie made the way you want to get it made, no matter what the end result is going to be, if people are going to see it, that's awesome.

I know it's a bit of an awful thing to say, but I really just make things up. My main goal is to make a picture that people find interesting to look at and that has my name on it.

I like playing with light and shade. I like saying awful things in very pretty ways.

Stand-up is my baby.

Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.

The first music I got really into was Bach.

When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.

I have perfected the art of the mean song to make me feel like I have a backbone.

Music is the backbone of my shows.

Dance is in my background.

I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.