Gautam Rode Quotes

You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic.

Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

You have to want to have taste. Some people have inherently bad taste. Their problem is really not the bad taste -- that can be fixed -- but that they don't know they have it!

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.

I don't want to play everything. So I'll seek out roles that I'll say, 'This is edgy. This is fun. This is wicked. This suits me.'

I think journalists and filmmakers are keen observers. And actors must also be sharp observers as they draw their characters and their stories from what they experience around them. After all, that is what actors, filmmakers, journalists are trained to be: observers. And then they do something with their observations.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

You can't legislate good taste.

The French have got taste.

Culture is but the fine flowering of real education, and it is the training of the feeling, the tastes, and the manners that makes it so.

I think when an actor feels like they're being watched with great sensitivity and a subtle eye and a nose for truthfulness, that has some effect.

Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.