Philippe Petit Quotes

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.

I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

I've always tried to do things a little bit before they were being done by the mainstream. I challenge myself to do that in stand-up also, to talk about things that I'm not hearing anybody talk about onstage and in the media.

I like more the fact that I like to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box goes along with dressing out of the box and living out of the box.

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

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

I'd like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.

Trying to show people something they haven't really seen before can get a lot of push-back.