Rachel Bloom Quotes

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.

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 never imagined myself doing a one-man show. If I'm going to do one, I'd rather do one that breaks all the rules.

When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

The most successful people are so original.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

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

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.

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.

In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

I am real, real picky with what I decided to do. I want to make sure it's new and at the same time that it's in the same color of what I have played before. Not to pigeon hole myself but I don't like to do fluff.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.