Graham Phillips Quotes

You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.

I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive.

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

I make music not to make money but because it's in me.

Musically I'm able to keep going, because it's not about money and it's not about success. It's a challenge.

I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When I feel like I'm not learning or having fun anymore, then I'll stop.

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

Everyone has different goals. For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I'm passionate about, that are going to challenge me, and that I'm going to be growing from. I don't ever want to take a movie just for the sake of working.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.

I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they got older. If I can, I'll be one of those people because what I do is my passion.

And the fact that you must make the movie for yourself because no one else will ever fully appreciate the endeavor, makes it a more rewarding challenge.

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.