Artistic Overlap Quotes

Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.

It's incredibly cool that R & B artists like Kanye and the Weekend, who from a completely different genre to us have tapped into 'The Hurting.'

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

Like with 'Starlet,' we intentionally did not look at 'Boogie Nights' before making 'Starlet,' and I should have. Because there are one or two scenes that come too close and it looks almost like - because it's about the same industry, and you're going to be covering certain subjects.

What I've discovered is, really, acting is acting is acting. It's all the same. Seventy-five percent of the skills are the same in both media.

I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa.

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

Listening to music and lyrics and watching movies, I think, uses a lot of the same muscles we use in reading and experiencing poetry - and yet we somehow forget that we have those when it comes to sitting down with a book of poems.

When I lived in Chicago, it often felt like the same people who were going to all the little theater companies were the people who were working in them.

In Europe, it is not so unusual for directors to move between opera, theatre, and film, and I have at least three girlfriends I can think of who have directed in all three genres.

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.