Quotes About Expression

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

It's always really scary to release new work.

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

Work is an opportunity to bring something forth-to create something, complete something, invent something authentic and original.

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.

Dancers work really hard, they don't make any money. It's hard.

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.