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I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.

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 believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

We don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be.

Creating music based on art and giving away from your spirit is more important than making a living.

I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.