Quotes About Expression

You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.

So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.

I believe in God. It's a big part of my life. You can bring it up and talk about it without being 'Christian Rocker.'

I think a lot of people are making music that shares their life experiences, and that's what I choose to do, too, but in my life experience, I also choose to try to find the hope in the music, and I think a lot of it has to do with my Christian faith.

I love Maje, Rick Owens, Helmut Lang, Christopher Kane, Felder + Felder, and Sam Edelman shoes.

Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.

I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.

There's a chunk of myself in every part I play.

Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.

House music is like going to church - it touches you. There's something really magical about it that pulls you in, and you just want to keep learning more about it.

I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved.

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.

I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.

I love being part of cinema and I don't see myself doing anything else.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

For me, cinema is happiness.

I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.

I have always said that the biggest difference between stage and cinema is that one has got close-ups.

I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?'

Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?

Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.

For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.