Ned Tanen Quotes

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

I like to make movies I like to watch.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.

My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.

All good art is an indiscretion.

At the risk of saying you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie: you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie.

I just want to make TV that I want to see.

I love my arthouse films, and I love taking a chance.

I started making films purely based on what I would like to see.

For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then I'm also able to make these very strong statements. I don't know what they mean to other people, but in my mind, they have a very strong particular resonance; there's sort of a power.

I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there's a chance to get some of those odd ideas done.