Valee Quotes

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

I'd rather be a Jack-of-all-trades than master of one. If I became an icon, where my whole life was music, I would probably have become a vegetable. I wouldn't be able to have all these talents I have today and be an interesting 'character.'

When I'm not singing, I'm a lot of persons: I'm a producer. I'm a badminton player. I'm a writer. I'm a movie freak. I'm a documentary maker.

A great interior designer is able to capture who someone is and adapt to who they are.

I love to teach, I love to draw, I love animals. So I don't feel like I am relying on one thing to lead me in my career.

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.

I feel like the world is dominated by such a small group of human beings. There are so many different kinds of people that aren't represented, that don't have characters who look like them. And that's one of the reasons why I intend on being a director, because I want to actually tell some of these stories. I also think that we place such intense emphasis on award shows when they're not necessarily the best reflection of how good the work is. We need to realize that art and creation are so much bigger than an award or any measure of accomplishment.

In my films, all the great things are put together. It's not like one kind of ice cream but rather a very big Sundae.

Another thing that you really do when you play, that you're supposed to do, is colors. You know, you cannot play with one color. If you play with one color, again, it's like watching a beautiful painting, a drawing, but it's all in blue or it's all in red. May be very nice, but not very interesting.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different.

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.

I'm happy doing different things. Being in a band is great, but being in a band can be difficult sometimes.

Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.

Life is too short to leave your walls bare or colorless. Unless you like bare and colorless then it is fine.

I love making films. I'm happiest when I'm doing it. For me, the fear is not being able to make the next thing and not being able, as a woman filmmaker and as a filmmaker of color, to put together the resources to make another thing.

I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use their imagination to deal with their experience, you know, I think that's going to be good for not only for those authors but also for people who are interested in trying to understand it.

Each musical finds its own way.

The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.

I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist.

If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.

I don't ever want to do the same character twice. Variety excites me.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.