#tryin

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets. ↗

— Spike Lee

#draw #entertaining #films #good #good story

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery. ↗

— Miranda Leek

#dad #keeps #me #piano #playing

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences. ↗

— John Legend

#grown #i #influences #listened #me

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#existential #express #general #going #i

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#believe #brought #figure #how #i

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#commercial #means #necessarily #out #people

Ever since Marilyn Monroe was transformed from one of the prettiest girls you could ever hope to see into an icon, everyone has been trying to repeat that icon. And now the entire industry is filled with, and by and large run by, wannabes. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#could #entire #ever #everyone #filled

So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage. ↗

— Jared Leto

#annoying #cage #change #director #dismay

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. ↗

— David Letterman

#i #just #make #trying #unconscious

What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#accusation #admittedly #advance #agenda #become