Quotes About Expression

I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.

I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived in, yeah.

Rock n' roll is dirty, and it's bad, and it's either clever or it's not clever.

I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

When I first started, it was a dirty word to say you made clothes for people to wear... I was a little ashamed of it. You didn't always feel you were this amazing creative force.

Anyone that thinks 'pop' is a dirty word is living in the '90s.

I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie.

The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.

When you disagree with somebody else, they often tend to get very defensive. But that doesn't stop me from doing the kind of work that I want to do.

Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.

When I sing songs, I love to put emotion into it. I want people to feel what I feel and just disappear for a moment.

The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people.

I can't do a film where I appear in a song and then disappear.

I don't have religion or culture. I don't have anything I can believe in when I'm really scared. When I play the songs, I feel the fear disappear.

I just tried to disappear and write songs.

I really love my chosen craft. No matter whether it's disappearing or disappeared from the mainstream, that's really been where my mind and heart is.

So much of my work has been about disappearing.

People make assumptions about me based on my music. I've literally had people stop me in the street: 'You are so sweet. I bet you haven't had a bad thought in your whole life!' I'm like, 'Really? I hate to disappoint you!'

For me, being a writer, you want to communicate with people, but if your goal is that every person is going to love what you do, then you're always going to be disappointed.

I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.