Diana Penty Quotes

Independent film is taking risks in all areas. It's not just about complicated women.

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

I was kind of nervous to put 'Learning' out: it's a lot different. That's who I am. I'm going to push the boundaries.

As an actor, I have always believed that content is the king, and I have always put my neck on the line to choose cinema that is off the beaten track.

Lot of people liked me in 'Manorama Six feet Under,' 'Oye Lucky Lucky Oye,' 'Dev D' and 'Shanghai' and the only common thing in all these films is that when we were making them we never thought they would work. The ones that did not work were safe films.

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.

The show, like everything we have done and still do, is just one more experiment.

Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting.

When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

The independent-minded movies - it's always an uphill battle to get them made and seen. You do what you can, and go out there after and try to tell people about it, but at the end of the day, that's all you can do.

You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much either/or. With the independent films, it's always a beautiful risk - it might never be seen. With the studio films, you're conforming to the formula of what's always been in place.