David Draiman Quotes

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.

In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I always question if somebody else is going to love my films. I think that's what art is about - it's so individual.

I've never thought of myself as just an actor.

Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am.

Maybe I'm too selfish to just be a producer. Also, I feel like I have something to say that's interesting or unique.

You can ask me about my beliefs on things; that's cool. But I think to lump in and say, You follow this person, so then, wow, who are you?' Ask me who I am.

In any piece of art, the artist pours themselves into it. It becomes a reflection of who they are and what they believe. That's what it has to be. Otherwise it's just a product.

A film reflects who you are as a building reflects the soul of its architect. I think what you feel and what you think and what you are is what the film is. It's not for me to talk about.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

My music is a whole reflection of who I'm as an individual.