Quotes About Expression

Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.

As long as my work continues to speak for itself outside of what I look like, I'm okay.

I've been lucky to work with some of the most creative people and it's true that I enjoy filmmaking and I'm an enthusiast.

I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.

When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.

I think what we're talking about is a sense of fashion as laboratory work. I mean, we are not scientific, of course, but we are looking for ideas all the time.

I can do my part of the storytelling. I can carry it. I can paint it. I can maneuver it. I can massage it. But if I don't have anything to work with, then there's nothing.

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work. It's just how do you get it seen?

Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with [Big Little Lies script]. It just kind of flowed out.

Your hopes and dreams, as well as your perception of the world around you, come through in your work and make it unique.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the end, justified in singing it my way.

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.

If there are moments in my work when people find joy and humour, that's a real success for me.

Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's a very healthy thing and it's not a corporate thing.

I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.

When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.