Anne Archer Quotes

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

Part of the process of acting in a film that you're also directing is really trusting the people around you to capture your vision, which hopefully you have communicated well to them.

The arts are a major life nourishment.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

The arts are what humanize science and history.

On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse you, let me try to please you with this thing I've made. And then pay attention to me.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.

For me, the world is a stage, and we are all playing the character we have chosen to play on that stage. It is the job of the photographer to capture the drama of the performance.

Music and acting kind of all goes together.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.