Julian Barratt Quotes

Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.

Wars and revolutions cannot be prescribed and the circle of their influence determined in advance.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

Adventure is just bad planning.

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

Adventure is a sign of incompetence.

I'm a human entropy producer.

It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

There are no rules in live television.

I was always drawn to the self-destructive kind of way. I thought there was something beautiful about it; I don't know why.

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

Reality in the end proves unmanageable. It breaks in upon man’s conceptions, changes them, and finally destroys them.

As soon as you start figuring out what you're going to do, something will interrupt it.