Quotes About Expression

A camera must be part of me - an extra limb capable of freezing a situation without complicated preparation.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue.

There is something about acting that's mysterious and magical because there is only so much I can do to prepare, and then I have to just let go and breathe and believe that it will come through.

I don't prepare for my characters.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

In Italy, food is an expression of love. It is how you show those around you that you care for them. Having a love for food means you also have a love for those you are preparing it for and for yourself.

I love food and am very good at improvising when preparing it - it's a really creative experience for me.

Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

Preparing for roles sounds so academic, doesn't it? It feels as if you are preparing for an examination! In a creative medium, the preparation is of an entirely different kind, and for me, the ideas flow from the script itself.

My style is always different. Sometimes it's preppy, sometimes it's chic.

I used to do the whole baggy, hard-core, I'm-a-boy look. Then I went through a preppy phase.

Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.

Don't tell your stories to anyone. You'll be more motivated knowing it's a prerequisite to having an audience.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

I always look at the motives behind each scene. You can play that out tonally with how you express yourself or you can do that with your physical expression, your physical presence. So I always think about what physical presence I want to embody in each scene.

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

Hands have a major presence in flamenco, and when your hands are decorated, it adds power.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

Generally in my films like 'Hearts of Darkness' or 'Picture This,' I try not to make myself a presence in the film.

Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.