Quotes About Art

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.

I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told can be art as well.

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

I think where policy fails cinema can help to bring people together.

Failure of a film doesn't diminish my love for acting.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

When I was younger, my goal in life was to work in special FX makeup. Liquid latex and fake blood! That was the dream!

Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.

A lot of the time, I read something I've written, and I think, 'Well, that's competent. It's not exactly breaking any boundaries. It's not exactly transgressive. It's just a bunch of fake people in a room talking to each other. But maybe there's a value to that.'

I have fallen back in love with music, which has allowed me to get back to my roots and create sounds without borders.

Moving to Trinidad was a great experiment. I never knew what it would do to my work or even if it would be accepted by people and not be seen as me just falling off the edge of the earth.

I like the stage challenges of having somebody literally falling apart before your very eyes.

I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.

Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.

Music can tear me up inside.

Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is very simply written.

I can't tear up a poem and be a sound bite for you. Why is that so hard for anyone to understand?

Photographs are things that should be pinned on a wall, and when you stop liking them - just tear them up!