Creative Fate Quotes

Being a musician is a given for me-I didn't have much choice in the matter.

You just can't control your art in the future.

Some of you are doomed to be artists.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

Films choose me; I don't choose them.

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.

I aint choose to rhyme, Rhyming chose me.

Every film has its destiny.

I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

There's a feeling that you get when you write songs where... it feels like it's destined to do something. Then sometimes you get that feeling with a song and it never goes anywhere, that happens all the time too, so you never really know.

I chose poetry. Actually, poetry chose me.

Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they're doing it?

I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am.

If you chose to be an actor, if you take that baton and say 'OK, this is what I want to do with my life.' you're really putting your fate and your life in the hands of others.

We entered 'Lucid Grey' into the Georgetown festival on April 27, 2001. Now 'Sound of My Voice' is opening on April 27, 11 years later. It couldn't have happened in a more perfectly cinematic way.

I did everything I could to not be a musician.

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

Honestly, I feel the films choose me rather than I go after them!

I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.