Carla Gugino Quotes

I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

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.

You may confuse a lot of people when going against the grain of conventional thinking, and that's perfectly okay. As an entrepreneur, standing up for your vision to your family and friends might possibly be the best practice you will get for the life that awaits you.

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

I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

It takes someone like Ram Gopal Varma to change the norms, bend the rules, shake convention, and come up with something like 'Road.'

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

All art is based on non-conformity.

Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them??

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.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

There was always that thing with 'Johnny' - I always saw myself as his writer and PR. But when he got out there, I had no control. His whole thing was going off on those flights of fancy. Going, 'Let's see what we can possibly do that hasn't been done before up here.' And when it works, it's lovely; it's a great night.

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

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.

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

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

I've realised that if I aim for a successful record, I probably won't have any success. But if I keep making weird things, then hopefully the audiences will come to us.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

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.

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

After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.