Todd Rundgren Quotes

By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

I think therapy interferes with the creative process. It takes off the edge.

You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

I consider myself an artist, which is, like, the most played term, but I believe it.

For me, filmmaking is not exactly a career. I was never in it for Hollywood or anything. My films are markers of where I am in life, where I am in my head. So that's what I'm working on, and I try to keep things in proportion - life and filmmaking. One feeds into the other.

I think around 2015 and 2016 I ended up in an identity crisis, artistically. I didn't know what direction I was going in. I'm a perfectionist and I want to be truthful to my beliefs, if you know what I mean.

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.

Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'

For the most part, works of mine are untitled. There was a brief period where I had poetic titles for works, and they're embarrassing now. I think, for the most part, it's not something that I have talent for.

I know how I want to operate as an artist. And that is by having an honest, genuine dialogue about this kind of screwed up journey I've had that I'm so thankful for.

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.

The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice.

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.