Jess Walter Quotes

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

When I meet a good actor, I would like to be a director. When I meet a good director, I would like to be an actor. When there is a good script, I would like to be both a director and an actor. The switch is very natural, not intentional.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.

I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.

I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

My varying pairs of legs can be quite practical or quite impractical, and I don't judge them either way. Some are for getting around a 12-hour day, pounding the pavement, and some are to feel like I can transform my own body into a workable, changing piece of art.

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. What works in one doesn't work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand.

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

I don't have a specific style. My style is unorthodox; that is my style. So you can't really place me here, place me there, because my style is just to be anywhere, you know what I'm saying?

As a model you need to be able to do the craziest things.

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

I think what's important, as an artist who wants to be multi-dimensional, is learning how to shape-shift into those different paths fluidly and frequently.

I'm a chameleon. That's my personality in the band.

I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me.

My style is that I have no style.

I can't sit still for long and need creative outlets and think you should try different things. I mean, if you're a musician all of your life, you gotta try different things. I really believe you can have it all.

I'm versatile, so however the beat makes me go on it, that's just what it do.