Quotes About Art

I would love to do a Bollywood flick.

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

We should not confuse having a Flip camera with making a documentary.

If I get a commission, it's like a flood of creative thought and energy.

I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.

People have always asked me why my favorite event was floor, and my answer was always, 'Because I love to dance!'

Floor is where I get to express myself. That's, like my party time, like my play time.

Cinema is my life and I can never make a flop.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

At 18 I wanted to study art history in Florence. I think I just fancied myself as Sophia Loren, wearing a foxy dress and walking through a market with a basket bursting full of figs.

I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it.

Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

I continue to wish that writing were easier, that it would flow out completely perfect with no need for revisions.

I used to sit and draw in the evening with a couple of crates of beer. That makes the ideas flow.

I brought the film like a flower to the world.

I would say 'Flower' had a story. It is told through the environment.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

My lens and my personality, it's just fluid. The art isn't just in one place.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

Some people say 'flutist.' Others say 'flautist.' I just say 'flute player.' That's what I was.

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.

The worse things are on the world stage, the more fodder there will always be for comedians. But at the end of the day, I trust in my abilities to make comedy and create art, with or without Donald Trump.

Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.