Pilou Asbaek Quotes

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything.

Simplicity is at the core of Sebadoh.

I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it.

Less is more! I don't wear makeup if I don't have to.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.

There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.

I believe that things can be expressed very powerfully through simplicity.

My need is about communicating the whole, and when the whole is there in the text and in what the actors are doing, then it doesn't need 'frou-frou,' as I call it.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.

I've always liked simplicity.

In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.

I think a girl looks good when she wakes up with nothing on her face.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

I like things simple.

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go, 'Yeah, well, of course.' Where there's no rational alternative.

I always go for simplicity.

Simple is the only way I can write.

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'

I didn't want 'Mudbound' to feel stylized in any way.

I don't like a whole lot of flash and superficial stuff; I want a woman that's all-natural, in her purest form.

I think I'm pretty simple; what you see is what you get.

I am quite no-nonsense myself.