Quotes About Expression

The building's identity resided in the ornament.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

We're huge fans of 'Game of Thrones' for example, 'Orphan Black.' And even though those shows don't necessarily correlate directly with 'Arrow,' I'm a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations.

I hail from an orthodox family, but they encouraged me to learn various dance forms.

Imagine a world without art: it's George Orwell's nightmare!

George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.

The real road, to me, was within the actor, within myself, within my own personality. How much Jeffrey can I find, and how much of Jeffrey could I access? What parts of Jeffrey have I never used for Hank or for George or Oscar? - and that was a delight.

Jazz doesn't have much to do with how I write songs, but I am a big fan. My favorites are Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, and Mose Allison.

You never make movies for Oscars.

I do the Golden Globes because they say I can say what I want. I wouldn't have that at the Oscars.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

I had a lot of Pokemon Pikachu t-shirts on court and hand-me-downs from other kids.

The other kids wanted to play Destiny's Child, but I wanted Anita O'Day.

I was always the kid down the street who got the other kids to put on a show. But it was only when I was 19, and discovered ballet and contemporary dance, that I got interested in the fact that you could have a whole evening of dance - rather than just waiting for the dancers in a musical.

When all the other kids were playing sports after school, I wanted to sing and dance and act.

I have to have a creative role; otherwise, I simply wouldn't come into work.

That's the secret to anything we write. You have to bring your experience to it. Otherwise, how do you expect anyone else to connect to it?

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.

You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.