David Zucker Quotes

I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

I like when things are completely absurd. I like when people take risks. I want to be able to challenge myself and challenge the viewer and challenge the back of our mind - the subconscious mind.

They're never gonna not put you in a box. It's something that they have to do, because nine times out of 10 people don't understand creativity.

I hate rules. I hate 'This is the way things are done'. I hate a lack of reinvention. I hate theatre as an archeological exercise. Theatre needs to be urgent.

I can't be interesting, controversial, and the writer I'd like to be if I need everybody to like me and think I'm doing the right thing, because those two things, in my experience, never go hand in hand.

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

One of the things with the second record, a word I held close to my chest was 'brave.' To take chances to go outside the box and explore. To continue to toss off any expectation that our fans or anyone else might have of us, to just tap into who I am as a writer and artist and really just operate within that freedom of creation.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.

When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you are doing. This is great. People who know what they are doing know the rules, and know what is possible and impossible. You do not. And you should not. The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. And you can. If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do. And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

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.

Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.