I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.
Bigger-budgeted films have more restrictions and less freedom to create. Because of this, I try to find freedom in the people I work with. I often work in ways I don't want to. It's more about controlling the situation. Lower-budget films are freer.
What I don't like is when people feel like they can box an artist into who they think an artist should be.
All the arts, to varying degrees, involve some kind of a compromise. This being so, how far need the radio dramatist go to meet the public without losing sight of himself and his own standards of value?
EDM is very functional. It's meant to make people jump up and down and go crazy and it's real good at that. I just think in terms of expression, it's very very limiting.
I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.
I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.
I felt like when you're an actor, you don't get to fully creatively express yourself - most of the time, it's not your own writing or direction.
Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.
Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.
Every artist has limits. No one can do everything. It's impossible.
Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier.
There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are.
Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.
When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.
You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.
If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables in a line, the challenge is, 'How can I interpret the meaning and contain it without going one syllable over?'
When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
As an actor, I can only do my job well, but in a movie there are a lot of other things that matter too - like how it is edited and promoted and the works. Those are not in my hand.
