Flume Quotes

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.

Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

There's no formula.

I try not to do anything by formula.

I really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

My style is that I have no style.

I think there's all these unknown things you can tap into when you just leave things open, and nothing is forbidden. Then you allow yourself to mold that thing that has been created by freedom and spontaneity and flexibility. That's why I avoid limiting performances of actors and characters.

The people I enjoy most are the ones who don't stick to script.

You shouldn't strategize your career if you're in a creative realm. You can't either. I love the unknown. I love the element of surprise. I've always felt really inspired by it. I love the spontaneity of the job. I think you can't really fight against it.

Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.