Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
“Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.”
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
“Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.”
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“Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.”
“Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroës, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd.”
“In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.”
“Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.”
“When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.”
“The life of Edward Estlin Cummings began with a childhood in Cambridge, Mass., that he described as happy, but he struggled in both his artistic and romantic exploits against the piousness of his father, an esteemed Harvard professor.”
“When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school.”
“I actually have a theater company called Strangemen & Co. I'm the artistic director and co-founder.”
“I love making music, but I also love making music that's on the radio. In some circles, that is considered less artistic. And I've always tried to resist those people that say the two can't exist at the same time.”
“I don't think being a star has ever been part of the plan. But I always want to do really good work, even when I made career moves with projects that made more sense in sort of a career way than in an artistic way... like I did with 'The Darkest Hour.'”
“Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.”