Dev Hynes Quotes

I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.

Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.

I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me; I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually.

I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.

I always assume that nothing that I make is going to be a success, that everything I make is going to be a failure - not a failure but not some huge box- office success. If something is an artistic success, I'll be happy, but I'll maybe be the only person that's happy.

I'd love to have written a film and it to be regarded as good. I'd just like to be doing things that are good, really. I think that's all you can aim for. I find it odd when actors say they just want to do films or plays or television. A lot of films aren't very good; a lot of television isn't very good; a lot of plays aren't very good.

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

My aspirations aren't to sell millions of records, but to write really good songs.

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?

I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I wouldn't want it to be heard by other people.

I feel good when my films get all the love, respect, and appreciation. That is my driving force to do better work in future.

Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.

I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond... a good feeling about his art.