Brushes Quotes

(On working with Roman Polanski on The Pianist (2002)) "We were shooting a scene and he`s like: `Adrien, I need you to climb up the building. And I want you to go up to the roof and I want you to climb out the window. And I want you to hang and they`re going to shoot at you. And I want you to slide off the building and hold on to the gutter and then you`re going to fall,` And I said, `Has anyone tried this before?` And he said, `Hollywood actors! Come on, I show you, I show you.` And he runs up the building, sixty-eight years old, climbs out the window and hangs from the window, slides down the roof of the building, hangs from the gutter, jumps down to the ground, brushes himself off and he said, `There, somebody did it. Now do it.`"

At the point where I`m trying to force something and it`s not happening, and I`m getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.

We told everybody we`re gonna do some acoustic touring, so I guess we`d better. Instead of going out there and sweating my butt off every night, I`ll be playing with my brushes quietly and stuff. I think it`ll be good for us, though, as musicians, to go out and explore that dynamic.

I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it`s a great brush to use for some stories. And there are other brushes that I think are exclusive to a different kind of story.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.