Quotes About Expression

Hip-hop is not one thing. There are 50 different approaches to making it and showing it.

I always loved clothes, just not clothes that were appropriate to the place I grew up in.

A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.

I think a film should be appropriate to what it's trying to say or the characters in it.

People aren't always going to approve or like what you have to say. But as long as you believe in it and are happy, that's all that matters.

I love to read because I know that for a long time ancestors weren't allowed to. I love to write. Because for a long time my people weren't 'allowed' to. So I'm going to write my books, my apps and tell my stories.

I don't know Arabic. I can't speak or write it.

I made French films and other films and a lot of Arabic films, but what I like is English for myself.

My favorite artists are the ones that I can take their eight or ten albums, and I can see the arc of their life.

When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.

I think it's always good not to listen to what the rules are supposed to be about the arc of the character and the third acts and all this stuff.

Arcade Fire always churns out music that makes me want to move.

I thought I would be in a band like Arcade Fire or be like Fiona Apple - but pop just made sense to me.

Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.

It's important to me to create archetypes of human experiences and make them so that the song has a sense of purpose when you experience those emotions. You know, just making people feel like they're not alone.

My dad was really into avant garde jazz: Archie Shepp, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.

I always say that the stand-up world is the arena of the unwell, and it is.

As soon as we started playing sports arenas, we thought how great it would be if we could instead play to 25,000 people in our own way - a way we can control it so there's not all kinds of company branding around the show - and do it in a way that celebrates the community.

It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.