Quotes About Expression

Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.

I would like to do something really big and then something really small, and see what it's like to work in that way, but in front of a live audience.

I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.

Oulipo ends where the work begins.

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.

I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the next. Sound drives the work these days - sound before description.

One way to be aware of it, to teach to yourself, is simply to read work aloud. I love reading the endings of books aloud when I start nearing the end.

Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

When I'm dead I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.

Those people who don't have any voluntary control, or hands, can work with the physical movement that they can do - whatever voluntary movement they have, even the slightest .

I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

I never work from the script. I get the script more or less.

You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.

Public commentary absolutely influences my work.

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.