Quotes About Expression

I am interested in independent cinema and theatre, and they don't make news.

When I started out, I was very vociferously against theatre or what I saw theatre as being, so I tried to make my plays the opposite of that - something a bit more cinematic. I'm a film kid, so I'll never have the same love of theatre as I do of movies. It's just the way I was brought up.

My favorite music is when the sound is supplementing the message. I don't think it's dramatic; it's cinematic.

I love films that take place over a short period of time, and I feel that those films are in our cinematic DNA.

Both 'Gulabo Sitabo' and 'Udham Singh' are cinematic experiences; nothing is less, nothing is more. It's all about creating good cinema.

I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.

I find inspiration for my works of art in my studio and in the squared circle from all sorts of places.

I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.

I love making music, but I also love making music that's on the radio. In some circles, that is considered less artistic. And I've always tried to resist those people that say the two can't exist at the same time.

You must be an artist and a citizen of the world. You must speak to this stuff that's happening. You must do what you can to shine a light on it, help people through it.

Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.

I can't claim to ever have done stand-up.

You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it in the same way that you claim anything, really.

I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that claim anymore.

To me drag is like a superhero mask.

I want to be in everything, but that's because I haven't seen someone who looks like me in everything. I want to play a superhero. I want to be the love interest. I want to write my own stuff and create my own projects. I want to be in French films.

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

All the PG-13 superhero movies are depriving me of the gore that I need.

Some directors want to make superhero films. That's what gets them off, and they love it, and they love sci-fi. I prefer putting my hands into non-fiction.

People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.

Sana Takeda is a genius. It's really that simple. Her vision and sense of story and beauty is beyond compare. I loved working with her on 'X-23.' I knew, though, that she could do much more beyond the constraints of a traditional superhero story.

I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my quotidian life.

I'll look at superheroes and comics and stuff and wonder, 'Why wouldn't you dress like that if you could?' With fashion, I look at it as a way to express that. I don't really pull any punches on it; otherwise, you get caught up in this nexus of dressing like everyone else.

I think it's a bit like saying a painter does a painting everyone loves and it's 40% blue paint, so from now on you have to paint paintings that are 40% blue. That's the film industry at its most blunt, which is why it's constantly bats and spiders and superheroes.