Priyanshu Chatterjee Quotes

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new.

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be put in a box.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.

You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is.

What I like is finding new angles on genres.

I feel like, Estonia, the sky is so low, and the people are much more close-minded than in America. So when I came to the U.S., I had a massive explosion of creativity and felt like I could do basically anything I want.

The proliferation of styles, genres, and media need not be the death knell of anything. Instead, it's a sign that our acceptance for variation and experimentation has become wider, our interests have become more diverse, and our appetites have become more omnivorous.

The only thing that drives me is those different sort of roles which allow me to experiment.

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.