Derek Hough Quotes

My goal is to make music and be a part of cool projects.

I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.

People ask me all the time which I would prefer doing more, but I honestly can't say. When I'm filming, I'm like, 'No, this is my favorite,' and when I'm writing music and recording and performing, it's like, 'This is definitely it.'

It's valuable to me as an artist and actor to explore all kinds of outlets. So if a local filmmaker in Milwaukee had a good story, I'd be part of it in a second.

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes.

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.

I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting.

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.

I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.

One of the coolest things Twickenham Fest does is to commission new works.

There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.

I've got one outlet now - music - and it's great to be able to sign someone that excites me. I'd like to also be able to do that with the scripts I get or books or TV shows... I'm not going to limit myself.

Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors.

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

I keep starting supergroups, writing ballets and things like that.

I think there's so much talent in Latin America - you know, directors from Mexico and Chile and Colombia - we have so much talent and there are not enough platforms to show our talents, so I'd love to use this and start creating my own endeavors and get all these really talented people together.

I am open to working with new directors as long as the script excites me.

For the last 10 years, I've been working with Donald Glover and Ryan Coogler, and we've put down so much time really trying to make the best that we can, whether it's a movie, a film score, or a song.

I don't think that I've ever really been interested in many other things aside from music and making art in general.

Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited.