I only get involved with projects as a producer if I feel creatively inspired.
I definitely still have my hand in acting. I don't think I would be able to walk away from it. It's my passion.
Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.
When some people were going around being surf bums and tennis bums, I was being a gallery bum. I really liked galleries.
All art is quite useless.
I had it in my head when I was in college that I wanted to be a writer, but it took me a long time to commit to being a writer. Up until then, I had worked one dead-end job after another while writing on the side.
As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.
I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.
Aside from singing, I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing since I was 8.
I think of me being a painter eventually.
My brother was older, very bright. He went to university. I wasn't academically bright - maybe at first, when I was little, but it was lost. I started doing a drama workshop and got really into it, then I did a BTec in performing arts and started to work.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
I think I'm always writing, and I'm always working, and I'm always trying to be creative. It's just something that I do all the time. I watch TV, and I'll play guitar.
I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.
It's all so surreal, and I'm living my dream. And you know, principal or not, I'm getting to dance all the roles that I've dreamed of doing.
When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live in misery and die teaching other people's children badly.' My parents wanted the safer path for me, and I think they failed miserably achieving that.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.
I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.
Any time skating was featured in a video game, I ate it up. So around 1997-98, I was shopping this video game idea. I was weighing my options when I went to Activision, but when I saw what they were working on, I said, 'This is exactly what I'd love to be involved with,' and following that gut reaction was hugely successful.
I do my work to the best of my capacity. I don't pick a role looking at its length. I take up a film because I would like to see it.
My art form is my child, and that's what I give my focus to.
