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I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.

I don't believe that directors need to essentially manipulate actors into doing things. You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you. I work best when there's a safety trampoline of kindness.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.

I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.