Kiran Rao Quotes

My favorite thing about this business is you're just jammed in a room on a set with like-minded people - writers, directors, and art designers and hairdressers. People who didn't work a 9-to-5 but chose this life. You're going to like at least two or three people in that you love these people so much.

When you're an artist, you're generally working at home alone in a studio. It's just really good to get with other guys and make art something you can share.

Performa's founder and prime mover, Roselee Goldberg, has great instincts for which artists might collaborate well together.

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.

In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.

I need to be working with the art world in N.Y.C. as much as I need to be working in my studios in Chicago and rural Wisconsin.

When you have a situation where you're hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there's insane amounts of creativity in the room.

Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.

Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.

I always wanted a family environment, a community where a creator like myself could connect and vibe with other creators without feeling competitive.

People look down on it, but I love the community of horror. Writers and directors are a tight group of people, and we help and support each other.

I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them.

When I came to L.A., I absolutely fell in love with the energy of the place. It's such a creative hub, so as a storyteller, there's nothing better than when you're surrounded by people who think like you and have the same goals as you.

I think the artist community is very tight-knit.

I don't really engage much in the creative community. I just kind of keep to myself and do my work.

You will find in the streets of New York every variety of architecture, just as you find in its libraries all the literatures of the world, and in its theatres all the music, and in its houses all the decorative arts.

To me, the more dialogue amongst creative types, the better. It keeps people on their toes, and competition is healthy.

I wanted to make a place for filmmakers and artists to come and 'do their stuff,' but I didn't expect it to have had the impact that it has.

It's a great thing if you're a creative person and have some kind of acting or dance or singing, any art. I think it's great to be around people who support that and who are into it like you are, and you can have one big family and teachers who know what they're doing.

I wanna grow and develop as an artist, and I feel like different kinds of collaborations can only help me in that way.