Brian Tyree Henry Quotes

It hasn't always been easy, but you get to a point where you're not doing the solo stuff with any kind of expectation in terms of commercial or a business outcome, you're doing it because you believe in this.

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

Everything I do creatively is never for money.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

I don't have this feeling like, 'Oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here.' I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV screen or the cover of your magazine.

I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy.

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

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

I'm gonna keep making music that hopefully I think is good, and whatever comes out of that, that will be fine with me.