Lia Ices Quotes

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.

I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I'm fine that way. I don't need to be faithful to any concept, you know.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Doing the podcast, the whole reason to do it is just because I can do whatever I want.

We go in and I do my thing, and then we supplement it with whatever we want.

I've worked with a lot of first time directors; in fact, I enjoy it because there is a certain beginner's mind that they bring into a project that isn't loaded with the way things have been done before. There's a certain freedom to it.

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.

I think there's all these unknown things you can tap into when you just leave things open, and nothing is forbidden. Then you allow yourself to mold that thing that has been created by freedom and spontaneity and flexibility. That's why I avoid limiting performances of actors and characters.

Now that I'm not a puppet for some director, the Hyneman is free to explore the world at large.

I wasn't really actively trying to pursue music, so I was really just allowed to create freely without any pressure or outside influences like, 'Oh, I should be making this' or 'I should be collaborating with this person.' It was just kind of like whatever I wanted to do. I was just having fun with it.

I found the recording sessions very freeing because you can really try things. When you're filming something, if you're improvising a film and you're wasting film and wasting a cameraman's time.

I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.

We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And "bad" usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing for actors - and not just actors, but everybody - is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices.

I don't thrive in a word-perfect environment.

I probably have the most fun on projects where there's some room to improvise.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

I think I had more freedom when I began making films. I did not know what could not be done. I was naive. I did what I wanted to. As you gain awareness, you start losing freedom.