Quotes About Expression

I cant make art to please everybody all the time. I make art that I like.

Theatre has a strong connect with the audience and gratifies me as an actor, but the canvas of films is huge!

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

That the best piece of art a person is capable of making is the one that only they could create.

We must be capable of writing our own history.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

As a female comic, if you talk about sex in any capacity, you will be branded a 'sex comic,' so I might as well go full force on it.

Social media has changed my life, and it taught me that you can make your own path and really find who you are as an artist, in whatever capacity.

To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.

I was already writing poetry, so I transitioned from writing poetry a cappella to writing over beats, and it was way more exciting to me that way.

I know a lot of people think a cappella is this cutesy, kind of novel thing.

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made up in my head so other people could see them.

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.

I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by myself, or like when I was a little kid.

Makeup can help you capture a moment.

Performance capture, for me, is finding the essence of a performance.

I think living things can recognize the movement of other living things, and all the best animators in the world can't quite capture that something.

Like, music and songs, what we do, we can capture history as artists, so that's what I really try to do.

The album is always definitely the goal, because I think that albums are like captures and bookmarks. After five or six of them, you can always go back and be like, 'Well, what was his first?'... I think an album really gives you a chance to make people feel something.

When I first began writing, it was not in screenwriting but in poetry. That form was so evocative, all about the image and the emotion captured in a Polaroid-like smattering of words.

The '65 Impala is pretty much me as a car.

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.