Aesop Rock Quotes

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.

In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

When people ask me what it is about Brazil and my work, it's not something that I can say literally. It's unidentifiable. It's like when you do research and things inspire you. If you're smart enough, then obviously you don't take it literally. The inspiration will come out later somehow.

Designers don't live in a vacuum; they are not blind to what's going on. They, too, will be inspired by what they see, and that will come out in their work.

I kind of feel like the job of actors and writers and people who make television and movies is to keep people company. In whatever modest way I'm able to accomplish that, I want to.

You boil down your influences to a soup, and it all informs you.

If you look at any creative person's work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That's what an artist does.

It's weird: I don't really know where I pull my inspiration from. I think it's N.E.R.D.

Television is as much a part of my journey as film.

Everything I do references something that influenced me.

Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box set.

Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.

The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

It's a funny thing with the inspiration thing. There's always loads of music around that I absolutely love and films going back to when I started making film music in the mid-80's.