Quotes About Expression

I don't approach my movies with a target audience in mind. I try to make something that's true to the subject matter as much as possible, while still being entertaining and fun.

For 'Nier: Automata', I wasn't told to target anyone. I just made what I wanted to, and I tried to stay hidden from Square Enix as much as possible.

To be honest, I don't try to speak and target who my 'audience' is. I just do my thing.

Yeah, it can be dangerous to kind of try and target your art to a certain type of people! You don't know who's going to gravitate towards your work, you never know what people are going get out of the work. So I try and just create music that feels true to my taste, and then see what happens.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

When I'm being interviewed, presumably it's because people want to know how I feel about something or what my motivation is, not because they want to hear what I sound like in English. I wouldn't be true to the task if I responded in my unrefined English.

My music is airy; it's spacious. It requires you to be able to rap and articulate your message over it. That's what the beat demands of you. Not a lot of people try to rap over my beats because it's a bit of a task.

It's not so much that art is difficult to make; it's that the structures and the kind of prejudices that the art world constructs make it seem like creating art is this insurmountable task.

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open and free, even on the most difficult issues. Especially on the most difficult issues. The task is to encourage controversial debates in a form that strengthens democracy.

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.

Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.

I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing questions.

To make a movie about someone who is thinking and writing is scary. There's no big love story, no action, no drama. It's not an easy task.

Any show that has a completely gay ensemble has the very difficult task of trying to represent the community.

For me, writing in English is not an easy task.

My task as poet is close to me.

Playing a character is like compressing an entire life into a few lines - that isn't an easy task.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.

None of us believes in an untrammelled right to free speech. We all agree there are always going to be lines that, for the purposes of law and order, cannot be crossed; or for the purposes of taste and decency, should not be crossed. We differ only on where those lines should be drawn.

My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.