Mathieu Amalric Quotes

The only reason why you should do a film is because it creatively carbonates you and gets you going. If you're doing it for any other reason, you've lost sight of why you're acting in the first place.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

I make music not to make money but because it's in me.

Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is written and, hopefully, published, others respond -- that is the Champagne. But we, or some of us, don't write for the Champagne. We write because we write.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.

I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

As an actor, you act in order to make a living. Then, when you can make a living, you start acting because you want to do what you love to do. I need to remind myself of that a lot.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.'

The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.

I want to see where and how far I can go as an artist. I look back and see what I've done, and I want to do as much as I can in my lifetime. I love doing it. If I didn't have that passion or love for it, I wouldn't do it.

When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.

There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.

It's just that I can write something nice is what motivates me.

I don't make art to make money, I make art so I can make art.

What is important is satiating my creativity as an artiste.

At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I stumbled onto something that was bigger, different than anything I had ever imagined, which was actually being involved with other people. I just don't live the average artist's life.

With every project, you feel like you're trying to find your place to vent. For any actor, that's typically the feeling that drives you to do it.

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration.