Artistic Discretion Quotes

I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

With my characters, I prefer to not say too much, and in fact, I tend to cut down some of the lines in most scripts I get.

I think it's really important to not talk about how you're going to release something until you've finished it. People are like, "What are we going to make? What are we going to do with it?" and it's just like, "I don't know, we're just making music. Then we'll talk." You can't always write something you're happy with; you can't force it.

I sift through the scripts offered to me and see what is worth attempting, because I think there is no point in wasting your time in doing something which you are not too keen on. I try and do whatever I feel interested in.

We watched these auditions and could only pick one. Sometimes we would add new characters 'cause we wanted to use another actress. There were so many people who were just waiting for something like this.

I never want to do nudity that’s gratuitous. Girls look so much better in lingerie or a t-shirt and leave the rest up to the imagination. I make it clear that I have a line. Everyone tries to push you, and it’s easy to get talked into doing those things. I’ll just walk off-set. But not everyone realizes they can do that.

I think it remains a film-by-film process, and since I am relatively selective and slow, it can take a while.

I can't take up every film that is being offered to me.

You read a script, and you know if you need to do it.

I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

I refuse some movies. I cannot always give reasons why I refuse. Sometimes, I refuse just because I feel like refusing! I always look at my role, and never bother about who the hero will be when choosing a movie.

When you write and make music, there's a tendency to save stuff... to be cagey, to be savvy.

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.

I don't really like to explain my songs.

You don't put your head above the parapet and become a personality if you're an illustrator - it's not part of it; it's not possible. You are a servant to the story.

It is not that I don't want to sign films, but I don't want to accept any film coming my way.

I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.

I don't model unless I think the project is cool, and I don't put my name behind something that I don't genuinely believe in.