Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

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

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

I don't know which was the first love - music or fashion.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You To Go") popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me. The words are about honesty and freedom inside the heart.

I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

All my songs are where I am.

When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow.

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.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

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!

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

I love singing just for my own benefit.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.