Sarah Paulson Quotes

I don't think one should be a slave to one medium.

More and more, I play myself, as I get older. Even as a writer, I never got typecast. I've always bounced from project to project, or initiated my own things. I was never known as the guy who wrote romantic comedies or sci-fi, or whatever, but that's fun to me. The first two films I ever had made, as a writer, were both thrillers, which was great. There was nothing funny about either of them, or not intentionally. I actually love that.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

I really want to explore every genre that I can.

As an artist, I really just want to do everything.

I don't like to limit myself as an actress.

It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.

You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

I love the idea of messing around with different mediums.

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

I just want to do as many different genres as I can. I think that's part of it... to not get pigeon-holed because if one of them breaks out and becomes a big hit then typically people want to keep putting you in that kind of role.

True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.

Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.

For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth.

I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified and valued.

I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control