Katherine Ryan Quotes

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.

People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.

If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.

Art should walk a tightrope. That's what art should be. Art should be dangerous. You can't be scared to say something with it. People love to talk about how comics are real art and real literature, so why not use these characters to talk about real things, even if it is dangerous?

My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And they're all shows that are groundbreaking. I guess in the back of my head, I think, If you're not being groundbreaking, then what are you doing? If you're not being ballsy and honest and vulgar, then what are you doing?

Sometimes you have to push the envelope in pursuit of the right thing.

It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.

Vertigo's always been a label that experiments with new stuff and forms of subversion.

I guess I should say I like to do things that people say you can't do.

I might not do it again and again, but I would like to test waters which are considered forbidden for me. It is a human tendency.

I've always been interested in kind of doing the thing that you weren't necessarily recommended to do.

Business people want things to be safe but that's rubbish to me. In music nothing should be safe.

More Than' challenges every norm, refuses to accept the rules as they are, one-size-fits-all, and most importantly, 'More Than' implores you to take massive risk.

I'm seen as a little risky to the industry, I think. All my favorite directors are.

Provocative... I used to be defensive about it, but in the end, I realised it's exactly right. It's what we're trying to do - to provoke thought and discussion and, you know, shake people up to start thinking about things in a different way. I'm interested in messing with what they think is the norm.

There was always a conscious effort on my part to do different cinema. It's taken time for the directors to accept me.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured a very long spell (thirty plus years) of regressive thinking and hyper conservativism dominating our culture and national discourse. It necessitates risk taking and rule breaking by people in all walks of life to swing that pendulum back though.