My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
Like Love, Art ties together all the great sacred traditions because they all used creative expression, or we wouldn't know about them.
If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.
Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.
Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.
I'm someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher value originality and creative expression.
I've seen situations where I think comics are really unrealistic about what creative expression and what the artistic freedom, what that entails.
Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book?
I'll keep creating modern, deep, rich and adventurous colors and products that inspire creative expression every day.
Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.
