Quotes About Expression

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.

When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

I love animated movies in general. I like making them.

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.

The score is in your subconscious. Sit down long enough at a keyboard and it will come out.

The fundamental difference between books and movies is that the length of a book does not depend upon the capacity of the human bladder.

Film is one if three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.

I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

Someone comes and drags you in front of the camera, and they're already saying, "Okay, we got it. Moving on." You get one or two takes. So it's a tough job.