Constantin Stanislavski Quotes

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

I've always wanted to be my own player from the start and do things a bit differently to what the others do. I want to play my own way.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Among tech-minded kids, I think Alan Turing was a tremendous inspiration. He was a guy that was so different than the people around him. He was an outsider in his own time, but because he was an outsider is precisely why he was able to accomplish things nobody thought was possible.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I just like doing things from my own head.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

I try not to do anything by formula.

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.