Quotes About Expression

It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.

If you take all that I've learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that into a song, not only are you using the gifts that God gave you, but also all the experiences you've had.

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay.

Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.

I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

I love using color.

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.

Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself to sort of dress it up - it's like using presets in your tracks.

I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.

Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano.

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

The causes for my eating disorder ran along the usual lines: depression, an inability to express my rage, a desire to exert control, a desire to feel less, a desire to have my body express the things my voice could not. That, and I had gotten in the habit of believing it was better to take up less space.