Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'?
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
It bothers me when people say 'shock comic' or 'gross-out' because that was only one type of comedy I did. There was prank comedy. Man-on-the-street-reaction comedy. Visually surreal comedy. But you do something shocking, and that becomes your label.
If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
It's not like I set out to be 'the indie guy.'
Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be.
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.
I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't do it. But I would be disingenuous if I didn't say that my intention is poetry.
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.
I never thought of myself as a Surrealist. I didn't think of myself as anything. I try not to. We all have these egos.
I wouldn't call what I do 'dance.'
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.
Well I don't think of myself as like a horror or science fiction filmmaker. I just think of myself as a filmmaker.
You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that's their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque.
I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.
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