Dana Ashbrook Quotes

I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

An airplane cabin isn't the first place people think of when they choose an exhibition space, but I'm all for doing things differently.

If you're making a smaller movie, you're almost obligated to do something unexpected and surprising.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.

I have this brand, I have my name. And I'm going to do what I want because people will buy it. People will enjoy it. So don't tell me I have to follow this formula and sit inside the box. Because I don't.

We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

When you're your own producer, you do the most ridiculous, insane things.

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

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

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.

With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.

It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am.

I think that David Lynch, he lives in a zone, and he expresses that zone to us with everything he does.

Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.

Once I had left 'Twin Peaks' and started doing other shows and other movies, I kept running into, 'No, no, we can't do it this way. This is the way it has to happen.' I'm like, 'No. I've already done it, and it worked, so I don't understand what you're saying.'

You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything.

I keep a band of great young people around me, and we're not musically restrained. It's not about 'Let's do it correct' but 'Let's do it right.'

From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.

Some people have iconic directors in their mind, or they want to make particular styles of films they have seen before. I think this is a waste of time and energy.