Marco Brambilla Quotes

The things I'm making for Vero are very pure. They're from my point of view, and I'm not pulling any punches.

Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

My own standards that I'll hold myself to is if the product that I'm making feels honest and it feels like I didn't compromise and it just came from an honest, correct place.

I've never been that person to fake it, and say what everyone else wants you to say. Then you never have anything personal. If I wanted to be an actress all the time, I could do that. But I don't. I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

In this day and age, I really just don't want to sell people on something. I don't want to have to sell you sound. I don't like selling emotions. Or ideas. I just want to give you these ideas and inspire people.

As for my relationship to Beethoven, I admire people who can say what they really think. It's as though he's saying, 'That's how I feel about the world, and I don't care what people may say.' His music is pure and honest. Beethoven never pretends to be anybody else.

Life is too short to play-act if you don't have to.

I've never been about just trying to do what works. I've been about trying to authentically express how I feel.

I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of stuff that people can connect to more.

I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.

How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

If your not honest with yourself, how the hell are you gonna be honest with me.

I lose myself in my performances so I wouldn't say that I ever act on stage. I don't find it to be an acting drill for me. I just find it to be something very real that comes from a very gut-driven, honest place.

I really just try to focus every day on delivering the most honest portrayal I can and let everything else take care of itself.

You're authentic when you're honest.

I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.

Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you.

Acting is about being real, being honest.

I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

They're only words, unless they're true.

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.