Quotes About Expression

I think that freedom of speech is just that, and groups have the right to support or oppose issues that are going to affect them as well as individuals do.

Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.

I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.

So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work.

I find that male directors are more interested in what the film looks like as opposed to what the film is about emotionally. My job is not to make the film look pretty, and I don't feel drawn to making myself look pretty within the film.

Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.

You just go straight for the reality of the situation. So when I sit down to write, I find myself judging it as I'm doing it, as opposed to letting it free flow.

Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate, as opposed to in aggregate.

I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal.

I think I prefer writing books because the work of art begins and ends with you - it's easier to know if you're doing it right, as opposed to writing a play and then waiting around for somebody else to complete it.

What I am trying to do is create a space for people to explore what they want to be, as opposed to fit into a label that they have been given.

A lot of other people have used the talk box but have used it as a sound as opposed to actually making the guitar enunciate words.

I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.