Quotes About Expression

Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.

The inspiration behind '1950' was... gay history and the way that our people had to hide in public and how that affected the way that we love each other now.

In our world, as artists, the only time I'm allowed to express myself is through song.

As a designer, I always want to put out to a larger public. I truly believe that all bodies are beautiful, and that's what makes our world exciting.

It's just always been a hobby of ours to make music that makes us happy and excites us when we make it.

If you have a large family like ours, you have to fight to get your point across, and I think I learned that from my dad.

Remember, the West's rock or pop was created for their languages, not ours.

You write a song; you know what you want it to sound like. With a band like ours, it's more about the collective. It's important everyone feels expressed and represented.

I think on our first two movies we weren't really writing for anybody else above us and that's not to say that movies aren't ours in the way we want them to be in terms of the scripts.

Ours is one of the last independent companies that offer a place you may write down your thoughts free from having to worry about whether they are offensive to one group or another.

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

We're all one thing, and we're all just enacting different aspects of ourselves all the time.

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

If you ask me, we actors have this amazing ability to detach ourselves from an emotion and just do it for the camera.

Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

Don't tell me I'm crazy. I'm out here acting natural.

There's a little bit of gospel in everything I do. But I don't know if I will ever do a gospel album. There's a big universe out here, and I don't want to just sing to the church. I want to sing to the world and bring them a message of love. I love going to church and singing gospel songs, but right now there's a message that the world needs.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. My job is to come out here and hoop, and that's what I'm going to do.

On the court, I get the opportunity to just open up all my feelings, everything that's wrong, everything I struggle with, I get to come out here and forget about it and get it out.

Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.

So Am I' is about loving yourself, being different, being an outcast and not fitting in the format that society wants to put us in - just celebrating what really makes you different.

Violence is never an acceptable outcome in the exercise of free speech.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.