James Adomian Quotes

I'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self.

Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

I hate to be categorized.

I don't put labels on myself.

I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I'm not that interested in entertainment.

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

I like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll with that.

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.

The newspapers and magazines, the theaters and the social reform movements, are more and more made for a public which looks only to be entertained and which has lost the power of sustained attention.

I've never been like Angelina Jolie, who at one time was spewing out this prototype Bad Girl stuff for people to consume. I've never boxed myself in that way. People can create boxes for me by all means, but it doesn't mean I'm going to step inside them.

There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific.

If you go back to the '80s, you had a whole plethora of artists, everyone from Madonna and Cyndi Lauper to Prince. God bless Lady Gaga for doing her thing, but she's kind of a lone peacock now. If anything, we have a much more conservative kind of pop world. It's not necessarily about individuality.

That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.

I guess I always think the people that know me or fans that have followed me and know my solo work would know that I've always had really eclectic tastes - even in Motley, dude.

People often say, 'You don't go to fashion shows? What kind of photographer are you? What the hell is the wrong with you, man?' But that's what I need in order to be who I am.

As a film-maker, I certainly don't want to be put into some box.

Fifth Harmony is an entity or identity outside all of us, and I don't think anybody felt individually represented by the sound - we didn't make it.