Chris Rock Quotes

I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

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

I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them. People know they get a good response. People want to make them. Who am I to push up against that?

Through art, you create your own world.

The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.

Artists can do whatever they want!

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

There are websites of 'True Detective' artwork out there now, and it's beautiful. And I don't want to take that away from anybody. I know what it means to me. But I don't want to take away anyone's interpretation of the show.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

I don't worry about what everyone wants to see. I make movies that please a writer, director and myself. I always think there are enough people smart as me and sensitive as me.

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

'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.