Tom Noonan Quotes

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.

I never go to the movies when I'm doing a play.

When I make a film, I don't watch a lot of other films. I read a lot; I try to read poems, things that can liberate my human condition, that make me go away... I spend a lot of the time doing nothing, just concentrating on the subject. Sometimes I'll sit in my chair for two or three hours without doing anything.

Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.

I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

Escapism always has its place, but when movies connect to other things around us and suggest implications that haven't been considered before, that's a dividend, too, even when our love of movies becomes complicated as a result.

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

Movies are different from real life.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective.

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people.

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.