Igor Stravinsky Quotes

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."

I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.

I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.

'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.

It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

I decided to do whatever I could to make sure the business side of music didn't intrude on the creative part.

You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent it may be - than the creative process itself, the process of composition.

We got spoiled with 'Friday Night Lights.' Not every show is like that, and on other shows, if you try to bring that same truth or that same approach, the system of television doesn't always allow for that level of collaboration, which is unfortunate because the work would be richer.

I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

I treat my projects as art.

A producer has to want you. And if the producer trusts you and asks for your vision, it frees you up so much, not having to explain or fight for every decision. You're allowed to create.

When you make drama you are like Picasso. Drama is whatever you want it to be.

Nobody wants to make something that displeases people, but once you make a film, that's out of your control and you can't think about that. You just have to follow your head and make sure that you're satisfied by putting down what you intended.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well as in terms of the initial observation.

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like.