A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.
Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.
I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.
You finish a project and start looking for something that might interest you. A lot of the films I've made are a reaction to something I've done right before.
What's exciting about watching a movie, when it's finished, is you sometimes you don't recognize yourself, and that's when I'm really proud.
And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.
I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.
If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished.
In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners.
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end up that way, driven by some kind of emotional response.
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.
I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.
The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.
This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.
