Quotes About Expression

Some scripts you feel like everything is precious.

Writers, directors often can get too precious with their words.

I think that being precious and rock and roll should never go together.

One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.

You just need to create and be open with that energy. The second that you are precious with it, it's almost like you showing the world you have a limited amount.

The net is a very precious thing. I hate it when people discuss measures to limit it.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.

Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear.

There are so many challenges and different parts to the job of singing. When you're in the studio, you have to be really, really, precise. You've got to keep everything clean and nice because that's going to be something that's down forever. And then you go onstage, and it's much more in the moment.

I always enjoy ballet when you can read the situation very precisely, when I could tell you exactly which sentence that person is saying to that person even when they're not speaking and just moving their hand.

I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.

The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

What good is a wall without framed art? It is like the equivalent of the accessories that you choose to wear to decorate a black dress - precisely the stuff that makes the wall/dress you.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

I have trouble working off things that are too preconceived, like storyboards.

Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.