I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
Except theatre, there is no medium which can satisfy good artistes in India.
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
I think of me being a painter eventually.
If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.
Film is a strange thing.
I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.
As an artist, I really feel I need an outlet to exhibit all of my skills.
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter. I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician.
Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.
Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.
I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.
Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.
I can bring in all these different components, and I marry these components, and I let them get traversed by the viewer, who reorganizes them.
I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.
In terms of creativity, both are equally satisfying. Music album is for yourself, where you compose songs and stuff like that, and in films, you have a story, characters, and songs penned by someone else.
I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.
Game development combines all this disparate art stuff I'd been doing into one single thing that I could use to say very specific stuff.
With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Because it is their medium. In a way, you are serving the director, and when it is someone that you feel you can have a lot of confidence in, it can make a big difference.
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
Film, I think, is my medium.
Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
