Quotes About Expression

It's one of those things that always astounds me, when I make a record and it connects with people.

I love Bon Iver. I would never put a negative connotation on that man's name!

Some of the words that pop up on the show have had terrible connotations. But that's the beauty of 'Countdown.'

In my own writing, I avoid 'female' and try to say 'woman' because I feel that the word 'female' has connotations of not just biology but also non-human mammals. The idea of 'female' to me is more appropriate for a female animal.

When something sounds good, I don't think any of the connotations matter.

I don't want to come and conquer American films or the American market. I just want to do movies that I care about, stories that I like.

I think I have lived enough in this country where I can say what I think is true and which is the voice of my conscience.

I feel like you come in under a cloak of someone else's skin for a while, but then you can shrug it off - you have to find your own voice, if you want to keep doing it. That became a really conscious thing for me.

I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.

I think you have some artists who try to be as conscious as they can be.

With 'Law & Order,' I had to be very conscious of what I was doing. I didn't want to show too much character.

It wasn't a conscious decision to be bold or anything. It all depends on how different artists envision me.

I've always wanted to write, I've always wanted to direct. The conscious decision was always to not be an actor.

As film makers or any artiste that put work out there, what you are doing on your level is that you are putting consciousness out into the world.

As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.

I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness.

Everything that we say has consequences. I mean, words matter.

You can say whatever you want, but there's going to be consequences to it.

Political consequences have never really come into my thinking. I didn't think about it when we made 'Maurice' or when I said first I would co-direct and then write the screenplay of 'Call Me'. I was just making something I thought I would enjoy creating.

I have nothing against conservative people putting out conservative commentary or doing conservative broadcasting, or liberal people doing liberal broadcasting, or conservative blogs or liberal blogs.

I'm not very eccentric. I wear more conservative clothes, though I do like mini-skirts.