Willem de Kooning Quotes

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

I would rather fall flat on my face than try to just make a quick dollar by making music that fits into the radio format right now. It does nothing for me.

I'd love to do films, but I'd feel bad in my gut if I did anything just for the money. I want to wait for something I'm really passionate about, even if I don't work for a year.

I won't make a movie for money ever again.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

But i think it would drive me more crazy to just go do a movie that I didn't believe in, you know?

As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

I love Michael Bay movies. I don't think I'd be selling out if I did one. I happen to like his movies. I think selling out is doing something you don't believe in, and you're doing it for a selfish purpose.

I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.

I have refused money sometimes for a film. I have refused films when I felt that it was not for me. When it was just a job or just about making money, I said no. I wanted to make every film count, and when you are true to yourself, this gives you a certain integrity and a certain reputation.

It doesn't matter even if I am slow or fast as long as my films are honest and carries my integrity.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without . . . having painted as much as you can cover with your hand, to please somebody or in order to sell the picture more easily.

It's appealing to me to get to be in a commercial film without feeling like I sold out.

I was termed 'choosy' because when an actor decides to go against the wind and takes on only non-formula films, he is not left with much choice.

If you go for the money first and try to think of what other people want to see, you change your original inspiration and perhaps put out something that's less original and less personal and maybe less satisfying.

If I like a script, I will definitely pick films of different genres, but I won't do something just for the sake of it.

Every time I decide not to do a commercial film, a masala film, I'm closer to myself.

I have no qualms working on a quintessential Bollywood film, but I can't work on mindless no-brainers. I have too much self-respect for that.

The reach of big-budget films is bigger, but I have always loved doing films that I believe in.

I just never want to do anything that's going to compromise what I do. It would have to be a song where there would be honest discussion about something.

I still refuse films offered to me at phenomenal prices and am doing some for peanuts.

I don't want to get on the treadmill of earning more money. I'd rather live cheaply and allow myself more freedom. I can honestly say I've never taken a film just for the dough, although I've made some ghastly mistakes.

I really wanted a No. 1 single from my first album, but I would not do anything different. It was real and honest and I didn't pretend anything.

I don't want to do material that I don't like. I've always stuck to that policy. If that means being out of work for awhile, that's fine with me.

It's really important to me that the music that I release is true to me and important to me.