Jihae Quotes

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

What I love about writing is that you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab a pad and pen and start writing. With acting you're really beholden to everyone else.

When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands.

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

Being a filmmaker in the digital platform has given me complete creative control. I can make what I want, when I want. I don't have to wait to book an audition.

I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world.

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

It's really fun to go back and forth from acting projects to directing projects. You don't have as much responsibility when you're acting, but you have more fun. But then you miss having that responsibility, and so you go back and torture yourself and make a movie.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

Once you walk off the set, if you're an actor, the rest isn't your responsibility, which I like a lot. I'm not responsible for the final product, which is why it's always a pleasure when you see it's in the hands of the people afterwards putting it together.

I just write what I write, produce the music I produce and try to give myself a chance to stay true to the art form. If you try to rein in an art form, it can be hurtful to what you are making.

Photography is a pursuit that allows you to be very hands-on with what you show people of either yourself or the art you want to make, and acting is kind of the exact opposite. You do have a modicum of creative freedom as an actor, but you're still very much a cipher for other people's art.

I'm not going to restrict myself as an artist.