Quotes About Expression

If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.

It's a real privilege to make movies.

I think being collaborative is definitely more natural for people who are minorities in any sense - so people who aren't, like, white male artists - because we don't have the privilege to create art and work alone, usually.

It's a privilege to always be able to create.

This is a privilege, what we get to do. To be able to tell stories. It's a luxury. So I have a business-like approach to it, the same way I had with football.

It's a great privilege to make a film, to have it shown, and for people to see it.

It's actually a privilege to actually learn how to really dance.

Making comedy is a privilege, so you should be doing something no one else can do. That's when it feels like art; it's a personal expression and it's being done in a unique way.

I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.

I came from a privileged background, which I am entirely grateful for, but it played a part in my feeling that I couldn't complain about my own emotions.

I'm privileged that I'm an artist.

I love curating, because I'm lucky and privileged that I have a platform and I can share my discoveries with other people.

I believe that art elevates humanity. I feel incredibly privileged to be part of that.

Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

Art is the job of the privileged.

I really prize and love great painting.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

I had eJay, and then I had Acid Pro. I had a crack of both of them, and I would just make little loops, and then I'd hum along to them. I used to spend a lot of time on a computer looking for music and making beats and stuff.

And I've never really been a makeup pro.

I am pro-expression. I am pro - you know, as long as you don't hurt anyone.

It's a very proactive thing to be dealing with your darkness and getting it out of your system. So it doesn't have to be in your system.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it - but that doesn't obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.