Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.
By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre for Shakespeare’s birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!
I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It’s important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It’s called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.
The idea that Veronica Wadley has no artistic credibility is just crazy. She has a strong reputation and when she was editor of the ‘Evening Standard’ she was very highly regarded in the arts sector.
I really don’t want to put more than a couple of records out a year, and I think that makes sense – on an artistic level, but also for my label.
She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.
When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.
When the Eagles were starting out in the early ’70s, it would have been hard to imagine anyone in the fledgling, country-accented rock group someday seriously challenging the artistic punch of Neil Young or Joni Mitchell.
It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live and I do what I do, which is recording moments of my life as I move ahead. And I do it because I am compelled to. Necessity, not artistry, is the true line you can follow in my life and work.
I don’t think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?
I’ve always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.
