Nina Garcia Quotes

To me, trying to achieve the balance is when you become good: when you have enough technique to be able to play what is that you want, but also when you can refine what you want to communicate to people. As a younger person, it wasn't something I thought about so much.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

You can't rush an art form.

I love to watch people dance. It is the most fantastic skill and art form that anybody can have.

When I was in college, I wanted to study film. My first passion was to be a cinematographer. So maybe there's something innate in my music where it partners well with images.

I think its pretty clear that film is the pre-eminent art form of our age. If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel. Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

I've admired Lawrence master from his choreographer days. I love how he experiments and makes it work. I like his attention to detail and the intrigue in his movies.

RGV, as a filmmaker, is very smart.

Cinema is very important to me. I derive a lot of strength from this art form, and I believe that it is very impactful socio-politically.

Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.

Every art form has its own beauty, but blending it with other forms in separate ways is okay.

Just like music, I consider wrestling to be an art form, and I have a vision of what that art should look like.

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.

I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.

The camera and I have always had good chemistry.

My techniques are basics, but my willingness to be in the pocket and see things is very high level.

Play is a medium of word and film is a medium of picture.

My sense is that you can make a film under almost any circumstances. As long as someone has a vague idea of what he's doing, something distinctive will emerge. That, to me, is what film making is all about.

There are people who take tap class, do a tap dance. And then there are people who know the dance, who know why they take tap classes. Who know why they do 20 shuffles, or 50 shuffles, before they go on.

If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.

When I was a kid, we played a jump rope game called double Dutch - where you had to jump over two ropes swinging in opposite directions. Picking just the right moment to jump in was a practiced art form.

When I watch a movie I don't really care too much about the plot - not that it isn't important, but what I remember is the visual imagery, something that happens in an individual scene.