Quotes About Expression

Unable to throw myself completely into painting, I explored literature, theater, music and film.

To be an artist means never to avert your eyes.

There were some excellent painters in this group, but in general, rather than an artistic movement with its roots in the essentials of painting, it was a practice of putting unfulfilled political ideals directly onto the canvas—a "leftist tendency" movement, as not only paintings but films of this type came to be called.

For a director, each work he completes is like a whole lifetime. I have lived many whole lifetimes with the films I have made, and I have experienced a different life-style with each one as well.

In other words, I did not—and still don't—have a completely personal, distinctive, way of looking at things.

To develop a personal vision isn't easy. But when I was a young man, this insufficiency caused me not only dissatisfaction but uneasiness. I felt I had to fashion my own way of seeing, and I became more impatient. Every exhibition I went to seemed to prove to me that every painter in Japan had his own personal style and his own personal vision. I became more and more irritated with myself.

The ordinary Japanese actor might need ten feet of film to get across an impression; Mifune needed only three feet.

On these occasions I do feel an urge to talk about my work. Nevertheless, I try not to. If what I have said in my film is true, someone will understand.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself. [Pg.189]

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

Whining is anger through a small opening.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

Cursing's for the uncreative. They say "Frack! on Battlestar Galactica, and everyone still knows what it means.

I thought it was endearing when we first got together. By the end I wanted to stab him in the hand every time he dismissed my cursing as an uncreative vocabulary. I think being able to use one little four letter word to convey a hundred different thoughts is pretty fucking creative.

Did you know that in survey after survey conducted by women's magazines, those three words were the ones that men most wanted to hear in bed? Please. Don't. Stop.

Il poeta trasmette: il comprendere è superfluo.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

The possibility of a musical modernity that was not characterized by sensationalism

If you can't paint a man falling from a five story building before he hits the ground, you will never make a monumental painting.