Quotes About Expression

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

My work is not directly about the social or political.

Music for me has always been something that is directly connected to my heart.

Sometimes it's hard for me to express my emotions on a conscious level, to directly say my emotions.

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both words and music.

Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves.

I think my music is a way of communicating very directly with people and with people's emotions. I try to make music that doesn't need layers of complexity or obfuscation to speak to people.

There is no way I'll ever write an album for Avril Lavigne or Christina Aguilera. I just couldn't do it. There is no way I could ever do it because my musical process is about being directly involved with whatever I'm going through in life.

My job as a director is to communicate, and I want to communicate to all.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

I need creative satisfaction and only then I can move in as a director.

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own.

Most actors who direct do it because they've been directed by so many bad directors.

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

Working with actors really depends on the actor. Most of the directors I've worked with don't really know how to speak to actors, actually; some of the best directors don't.