Jeremy Scott Quotes

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.

Films are not meant to be watched only by fans but by everyone. Fans are those who like what we do. When we do things that only they like, then we are becoming their fans.

I always think of myself as an audience first. If I like something, my assumption is that others, too, will like it.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

I think there'll always be a kid with a guitar with a song in his heart that's going to turn me on - that's as far as I can see. Whether lots of people agree with that, I'm not sure.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.

I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.

I've never fallen into what I consider to be a trap of trying to figure out something analytically that could be a very popular film. I would hope my enthusiasm could match up with something with that potential.

Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their own and making a separate thing for it, that's beautiful. It just shows you how much you can affect other people... the butterfly effect of everything you put out into the world.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

I know that whatever I put out, whether people think it's pop or noise or whatever, it's always going to be some kind of a freak or mutation. It's not going to be anything pure that a lot of people will relate to. And that's fine.

If people see that you're passionate about what you're creating, they're going to enjoy it.

I found the idea of trying to create a show that everyone can enjoy really appealing.

For us, we are interested in doing what's cool for us and what's cool for the audience. That's it.

If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.