Quotes About Expression

A first building is like a first novel, it is always autobiographical.

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography.

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.

I've got an odometer on my voice that has out-odometered an odometer on an automobile.

When you do stand-up, it's so autonomous: I can say anything.

If I had my druthers, I wouldn't have anyone's words in my script but my own, but if you want complete autonomy, just stick to novels.

The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.

In London, I did feel a pressure to be more avant-garde than I wanted.

The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music.

I'm just making 'Threadworlds' out of the things I love and that I'm passionate about learning. When we created 'Avatar,' Michael DiMartino and I did the same thing.

It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.

On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing.

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

I felt it was time for there to be a document of what we sound like now.

There's an Armed Forces Haggadah and an Alcoholics Anonymous Haggadah and an LGBT Haggadah. Some people make a new Haggadah every year. It's a real living document... They're just constantly made throughout time.

I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.

I never wanted to do a documentary or write a book.

With documentary, you just pick up a camera and start.

I love documentary because it's alive.

People never read my books for the quality of the documentary value.