Jonah Hill Quotes

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

I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.

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 practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.

The one thing I'm proud of as a filmmaker is that people are entitled not to like my films - that's the privilege of the public - but I think I have my own imprint.

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.

If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

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.

I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.

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 want to be a genuine artist who has a say in what I do.

If you look at my career... I couldn't possibly have chosen those subjects if I was thinking, 'That's a great commercial idea.' I'm not aware of a great musical where someone has done that.

One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as his tool. A product of the marketplace sensibility, this attitude barely differs on a psychological plane from the patron's view of the artist as a paid employee.

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

I just always make honest music. I just always kinda do what I wanna do.

Honestly, I really can't speak on others, but in a sense, I feel like every artist always has their problems with the industry because we all want to have our creative way.

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

I just write what I write, produce the music I produce and try to give myself a chance to stay true to the art form. If you try to rein in an art form, it can be hurtful to what you are making.

I just never want to do anything that's going to compromise what I do. It would have to be a song where there would be honest discussion about something.

A lot of my stuff just wasn't saleable. I still don't do private or corporate commissions. It becomes like interior design. I don't enjoy it. The process makes me feel physically sick.

I just make music that I love. I'm kind of selfish when I make music. I'm like, 'Do I like this?'