Creative Dependency Quotes

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

I feel like, as an industry, we've gotten too dependent on source material originated in other mediums.

Foster the People wouldn't exist without Mophonics.

I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

I wonder if some artists determine their entire identity through that which they create. How dangerous! Imagine if they were to stop creating!

The truth is James Cameron can do every other job. I'm talking about every single department, from art direction to props to wardrobe to cameras, he knows more than everyone doing the job. But he can't act. And therefore he is in thrall of actors.

I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.

Whether or not I would be able to be an actor without the music I'm not sure, but I feel pretty lucky to do it.

You create this situation where you are so dependent on each other. That's especially true for film. In theater, the actor has much more say, much more control, for better or worse.

I feed off the fashion world like a parasite.

I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you can make music in studios, music doesn't have to be made as a real-time experience. But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of "cut and paste" and "undo." And "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" again.

Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.

I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.

I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material.