Richard Selzer Quotes

If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

Every single soul is a poem.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling.

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.

You can recognise when a film-maker really, really cares about what they're doing.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

I have fun making films. I love making films. It's the only thing I know how to do. And I do it well.

Songwriting is my craft now, and it's more than something I just enjoy.

Whenever I go onstage or in front of a camera, I always want to pour my soul out because I know I have a lot to offer.

I always put a lot of heart in my movies in general, but in 'It' too, I put a lot of heart in it.

To me, there's way more to being a good drummer than precision and technique.

I've always given attention to detail. I've always given my heart and soul into a lyric, into a line.

That's all I know how to do, just make music.

You don't have to love cooking to cook, but you have to do more than love baking to bake. You have to bake out of love.

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

I like to see things that take a lot of time and effort and passion. Which I feel like 'Skins' has.

I want everybody to know my name because I feel like I give so much of my heart and my soul in my music.

I think I'm a good lyricist.

I love singing - singing was basically kind of my passion before ventriloquism.