Dee Rees Quotes

It is such a special place to be when people all over the world enjoy the TV show that you are in.

Internationally, I have as large of a fan base - if not larger - than I have domestically.

That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work.

The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.

When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.

There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there's an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts.

Once a film is selected at Cannes, the crossover becomes very easy, thanks to the prestige and dignity it gains at Cannes.

It's true that a song or an entertainer isn't really a hit unless he's a hit in America as well as Europe.

I was chosen over British and French choreographers to work on 'Bombay Dreams.'

Just the extent of the reach that the WWE Universe has around the world is incredible.

As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.

It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.

I remind myself Vincent van Gogh died without having sold a single painting. Like, art is not measured by the trappings that people attached to it. It's the thing itself, and so, as you know, it's been a dream of mine to write songs for Disney, and so, it's really exciting to finally hear. It's two and a half years.

Michael Jackson did something that no one else in history has managed - he connected with people on every level imaginable, all over the world. He seemed to speak to people at their very core and achieved the impossible. He reached people on a deep emotional level. And that is what any great artist or showman dreams of doing. That is why Michael Jackson was so special to me.

Tech N9ne is worldwide, man, it's the biggest thing ever to me and if it happens to blow as big as I expect, I won't be able to go anywhere. That's what I'm prepared to do, because my goal is to get my music to the world.

You're not just making music for your personal use no more, just making music for your homies around you; you're making music for people around the world. Kids in Alaska - like, you're making music for everybody. When I make music, I just think on a larger scale.

Certain jobs [films] are for the business really, because they get an audience, they get a global audience. Certain jobs are as an artist. If I can keep moving forward and strike some form of balance between them two, then I'm going to feel content.

The frame is the reward of the artist.

Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk out. Other artists who don't register so keenly at the time, prove to be trailblazers.