Quotes About Expression

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

I myself have always had that secret desire to become something completely different and enact revenge on certain things. So I do that through my movies. My desires become reality in the movie because it can't become real in real life.

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.

I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.

I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.

I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

Part of making art is learning how you make it best. I'm not great at sitting down at a desk and writing for three hours. I write best verbally, talking through an idea with people, so I do my best work when I collaborate.

My desk is my drums.

When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

It blows my mind when I actually consider that men are as human as I am. How can you possibly be as human and have all of the thoughts and feelings that I have and never be able to talk about it, ever? Guys are in desperate need of truth telling. They are in desperate need of a revolution.

I think a lot of comedians are desperate to show their serious side, but I got that off my chest early on in my career.

Desperate times make for desperate songs.

I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation.

I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable.

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.

When I'm in the studio, I'm very cautious about it because if there's one thing that can destroy music being made, it's any sort of agenda, expectation and/or schedule, or any of that.

A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.