If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?
With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.
I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.
At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?
I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.
It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.
I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.
As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.
Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.
