Jessica Clark Quotes

I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

I've been writing all my life, and playing bass came later on, when I was about 26. What I recognized with poetry and music that I had a different voice - there were things I wanted to express that I could not as an actor or even as a director. It was another avenue of expression that my soul needs.

I like to paint and spend a lot of time doing art. For me, it's about hearing yourself and putting it out there as art. It's like a therapy thing.

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

I've always been the person who has needed a creative outlet.

I have always wanted to tell stories. Even as a classical dancer, I revel in telling stories through my dance.

If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them. Maybe they would have been less glamorous than films, but I would continue to tell stories.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because it allows me to embrace the visual world that I love. It's allows me to interact with people, to be more social than fiction or poetry, and it felt like the right way for me to tell the stories that felt pressing to me.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.