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Art And Creativity Quotes
Art And CreativityFilm IndustryMedia InfluencePerception and RealityWork Environment Most movies, you have to try and forget you're making a movie, because there are trailers and booms and lights and marks, and it's everywhere.
Art And CreativityQuality and StandardsStorytellingTechnology in FilmmakingTools and Techniques Visual effects have always been a part of this art form. And CG is simply a tool on the filmmaker's tool belt to tell a story, but when the end result is bad - maybe it's not the tool's fault.
Art And CreativityEmotional DepthExpression and CommunicationLife ExperiencePersonal Reflection Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.
Art And CreativityMemory And EmotionSensory Experience If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
Art And CreativityFamily and HeritageIdentity and Self-ExpressionTradition and ChangeWork And Profession I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.
Art And CreativityCultural IdentityExpressionFilmmakingGlobal Influence Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.
Art And CreativityDiscipline And ArtistryExpression And ArtLiterature And InspirationPerception And Insight I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it.
Art And CreativityHistory and CultureHumor and SatireLaw and JusticeLegal Philosophy In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, he was reading dueling opinions by me and Justice Scalia and decided he could compose an appealing comic opera from them.
Adaptation and OriginalityArt And CreativityAudience and Reception When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.
Art And CreativityPerformance and SuccessRisk and UncertaintySelf Reflection Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
Art And CreativityExistentialismMeaning and Purpose The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
Art And CreativityArtist S PerspectiveConnection And OutreachRole Of GalleriesTruth And Reality I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?