Kayvan Novak Quotes

I'm not always the first person to run out and see something I'm in. I don't know; for me, that's not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to act. I don't really think about the end result. I don't feel like I have to see it - for me, it already happened.

I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can too!' I want to direct, do more with 'The Dance Scene,' sign artists and just provide opportunities. I'm just getting started and having the time of my life!

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.

To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

I must say, to my great surprise and pleasure, I deeply loved making movies in the United States because of all the opportunities it gave me to work with people that I admire as artists.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.

The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.

I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend time with my newborn daughter and my wife. My time away from the spotlight allowed me to rediscover my love for music, and I'm doing it for me now and no one else.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put you in a little box.

I never try to pander to an audience, and I'm really not concerned with my image. I'm far more interested in stretching my abilities as an actor.

'Deadwood' was just a wonderful opportunity for me. Outside of my own things that I've written, I hadn't had the opportunity to play a character with that amount of depth and range.

Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.