Less is more! I don't wear makeup if I don't have to.
We should work for simple, good, undecorated things.
It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.
I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.
My office. It's drab and boring but quiet.
My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
In terms of my looks in 'Brothers,' it's definitely not a glamourised look. It is very realistic.
I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.
I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.
My need is about communicating the whole, and when the whole is there in the text and in what the actors are doing, then it doesn't need 'frou-frou,' as I call it.
Simple is the only way I can write.
I like to portray things as close to the bone as possible.
I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it.
Simplicity is at the core of Sebadoh.
I am quite no-nonsense myself.
I believe that things can be expressed very powerfully through simplicity.
In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
I am a very straight forward, no-nonsense woman.
Simplicity is the key for me. I can't write clever songs; I just can't do it.
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
If it was up to me, we would eliminate close-ups and beautiful light and sound - because we want to go back to basics.
I didn't want 'Mudbound' to feel stylized in any way.
