Fred Astaire Quotes

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

It's important for me that anything I lend my stamp to must have a perspective that is uniquely mine.

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

'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.

I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of personal intimate expression that writing is. Because when you're directing, you're basically managing, basically getting out of people doing their job, except when you see them going astray.

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.

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.

I avoid watching other people's versions of films or plays that I work on.

I write my books never thinking of an actor.

I just make the music feel the way I want it to feel, and I don't put it out until I'm totally happy with it.

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

You need to see yourself in what you direct, I think - directing is quite self-indulgent from that point of view.

The critics are not writers - they're not a part of the creative process; therefore, they should not influence how I go about doing my next bit of work.

I don't work for the commercial success of the film. I work to satisfy my producers who give me the money. I work to satisfy the director who has written a script for me. Of course, I have to satisfy the actor in me, but I want to satisfy them first.

I just follow what inspires me as an artist and a storyteller, and stay true to myself in my work.

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.

You can't really just think, "Oh, I want to make something that is going to appeal to every single person in the world." You have to just try to make a movie that comes from your heart.

A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don't want to do that.