Cinema is not just a side show - it is something which is much deeper than that. It is a form of art which needs to be respected.
What motivates me is true talent, it's golden when talent acknowledge talent.
No matter how lofty a film is, it becomes a product after entering the market. It has a price. I think no matter what your purpose of shooting it, it has to have artistic value and then sell. But you can't make money if it doesn't have artistic value.
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.
Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?
Pop music will never be low brow.
I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.
I don't know when acting came to be more about awards than about the work. Judging who's better than the other person shouldn't be part of why we're doing this job. It should be about entertaining people.
People confuse 'pretty' with good cinematography.
Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.
All art is quite useless.
Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
Art is very subjective and having to put numbers on it seems counterintuitive.
I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.
I was asked, 'Why do you think the male 'X Factor' winners haven't been successful in the past?' And I said, 'Because obviously the body of work that they've brought out wasn't good enough,' and that was it.
Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it.
The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'
Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.
