Dwayne Johnson Quotes

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

I make movies based on gut.

I don't really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I've done before. I try to make music that I like and I trust my own judgement with what will work with a wider audience. If you compare yourself to the charts, you lose perspective on what you're doing and why you're doing it.

I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.

I don't think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

I don't have many rules, but one of them is, 'Do not make a movie you yourself would not want to see.'

I don't start out making films with a certain goal in mind.

I treat my projects as art.

My design philosophy has always been eclectic.

I never control a film. The film controls me.

I just try to write literally what I love. That's usually the barometer that I use. As trite as it sounds, I'm like, 'what would I want to see? What would I be excited about?'

I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.

I'm not limited by genre and it doesn't really matter what the genre is as long as the film is going to be new and have some real artistic integrity.

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good.

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you want to do, that you attempt to do as an artist, is to have some sort of input into the material that you are working on. That is how my process begins; I say to myself: "I want to do this kind of work or I want to do that kind of work."

Play and write music the way you want the world to be.

There are certain things I do because I am creatively inspired and artistic.

I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't care who's in it, how much money is behind it, really to an extent who's directing it.