Jason Calacanis Quotes

Sometimes if you've got a story that's interesting enough, you don't need to pour sugar on ice cream. The ice cream is great.

Director Aji John has a style of filmmaking that will surely appeal to all.

The short form, for those people who can master it - and I am by no means one of them - it is very admirable, because it is really hard to tell stories that can stick with the audience and still be between 5 and 30 minutes long. I think it's a real challenge.

I think a truly fantastic video is worth it. We spend so much time on the music, it only makes sense to have a really well-done visual translation of that music.

In the work I do, historical elements tend to merge with contemporary forms, such as photo printing on furniture or bold sari prints, to create something unique and memorable.

I don't watch the kind of cinema where people say, 'Leave your brain at home,' and watch.

I follow only one rule in my writing, and that is to be interesting. If the story is interesting to you, the writer, then it will probably be interesting to somebody else.

What good is a wall without framed art? It is like the equivalent of the accessories that you choose to wear to decorate a black dress - precisely the stuff that makes the wall/dress you.

I tend to gravitate toward people who are a bit more eccentric and creative and artistic in some ways. And I like bringing disparate kinds of creative people together to create some great work, even to share points of view on a new direction.

We write when the time comes, and we try to be exciting, and stuff that excites us usually makes the record.

Cinema which is well-made, for any kind of audience, is worthy of being watched by just about anybody who would like to watch a good story being told.

If you get to participate with a group of artists and make something that's really truthful, that's about the highest you can go, in my opinion.

If you can connect with the audience emotionally, that's potent storytelling.

I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

I think that some of the writing, directing, and the content is better than a lot of movies sometimes. Actors, well artists in general - actors, writers, directors - what we all care about the most is good work and being able to create something that is really resonant and meaningful.

Didacticism is the death of art.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.

Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.

At the end of the day, it's nice to walk away from a set knowing that you're doing a movie that is not just for money and is not just pure entertainment.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

Art should never try to be popular.

You have to make something good. Just because all the hot actors show up and the money is there and the explosives are ready, it doesn't matter.