Quotes About Expression

I kind of love my work. I really love the pieces I do.

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole.

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

The great thing about costume jewelry is that there's something for everyone - there are very humorous pieces and very extravagant and outrageous pieces.

I like things in my hair - big feather pieces.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.

I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films.

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.

I've composed a fair amount in my life, and some of them have made it on to the screen, some compositions that I've done, a few. And I like doing that. I had never really considered doing a full-length thing. I've worked with other people creating full-length pieces.

There are bits and pieces of me probably in every one of my 35 or so books.

In some ways, you kind of take a personality and drop it on the ground, and it breaks into a bunch of little pieces, and you kind of water those pieces, and it grows into characters. So they're all me in a way.

I did a production called 'Classical Savion,' where I did some Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, and all these great pieces.