Channing Dungey Quotes

It's really empowering when, as an artist, you can visualize something and then have the final product turn out the way you wanted it to.

I have had such a satisfying career; I've gotten to do so many amazing things as an artist.

As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.

I'm not sure I'll find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, it's great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do.

I am happy writing and being a producer not a director.

Success isn't dependent on the market place, because I can't control that. It's about completing a good song.

As a creative, as an artist, I'm just excited when people want my stuff, and want to experience it.

I just really feel so grateful to Sundance because I've always been an artist and I've never been able to make a living at being an artist until Sundance.

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?' And if you're able to say yes, in any field, you've won. If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.

My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.

My general advice for writers/comedians is, make stuff you like and are proud of. Put it in a place where people can see it, whether that's onstage or on the Internet or wherever. Just do the things that make you happy creatively, and then show them to people.

Some people get turned on by my work, and it sells, but what drives me is the process of making it.

To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to experience.

You come back with an actor for the second time only when you had a successful and creatively satisfying experience the first time round.

To have produced a product where I had total creative control and see it flourish is like watching a baby grow.

A run-of-the-mill bad guy role does not satisfy me creatively.

Sometimes, you try something, and it works in terms of success. That doesn't mean you like what is a hit. Sometimes you like the most obscure song on your album.

It is essential for artistes to have that release of creativity, almost as necessary as eating food or drinking water.

The most immediately gratifying thing about my work is conducting a large orchestra. But the long range payoff is composing because you've written something and it's there forever.

I do indie films for the sense of fulfillment and to achieve my goals as an artist.

I don't want to be just a performer.

If you get to participate with a group of artists and make something that's really truthful, that's about the highest you can go, in my opinion.