Steffan Rhodri Quotes

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

When you think 'Peaky Blinders,' when it first began it got mixed reviews and people didn't know what to do with it, and it was like: 'Why is there modern music on this?' So I think whenever you do something different you're going to get that response.

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

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.

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.

One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

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

The innovator, however, must in the first place be discontented, he must doubt the value of what he is doing or question the accepted ways of doing it. And secondly, he must be prepared to take fresh paths, to venture into fields where he is by no means expert. This is true, at least, of major forms of innovation; they make it possible for other men to be expert, but are not themselves forms of expertise

We're impressed by people who don't know what can't be done.

A lot of times, the people who have the confidence to say, 'I don't know what the rules are, so I'm just going to do what I want,' are the most exciting people.

I'm trying to do different music, and I'm trying to be out of the box.

It's important to be unconventional.

What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be.

Question everything. Don't try to emulate someone else's path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you're in; know the rules, and break them.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

I like to try and be outside of the box or do things that other people aren't doing.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

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 don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily fit the form. I've never felt limited in that respect in terms of songwriting.