Quotes about Expression

Our statements will be adequate if made with as much clearness as the matter allows.

Tragedy--as also Comedy--was at first mere improvisation.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

By the time I finished 'Poison,' the New Queer Cinema was branded, and I was associated with this. In many ways, it formed me as a filmmaker, like as a feature filmmaker I never set out to be.

Being outspoken about my faith isn't just something that I do; it's who I am because my faith isn't just a little piece of my life. It is my life. It's not a question of whether I'm outspoken about it or not. I'm definitely not ashamed of it.

Let's let our men be happy, be sad, be trans, be questioning, be bisexual, be non-conforming, be feminine, be masculine!

I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

It bothered me that women were taught they can't be beautiful just being themselves - it filled me with rage.

Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.

I got into rap when I first heard Sugarhill Gang.