Tabu Quotes

I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!

This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.

I always like to get a role where I think, 'Ah, I know this is probably going to be played like this, but I'm going to do it like this.'

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. You give Terrence Malick a movie like Transformers, and he's f***ed. There's no way for him to exist in that world... Lars Von Trier's dangerous. He scares me. And I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

All art is based on non-conformity.

I am an artist who's just tryin' to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody's opinions and wanting to follow what everybody else is doing. At the same time, I know when to be serious, but I know when to joke.

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring that you've experienced throughout your life. If you are truly a creative person, you know that feeling insecure and lonely is par for the course. You can't have it both ways: You can't be creative and conform, too. You have to recognize that what makes you different also makes you creative.

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

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

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

In art, the obvious is a sin.