Ahead of its Time Quotes

If anything, I was the definite edge of the spear into The Attitude Era, I believe, so it was way before its time, the stuff I was doing, and it kind of set the tone for what was to come.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

What we were doing was alien in '92. We were less than immediately accepted by our fans and peers.

The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.

'Political Animals' was before its time: a little darker, a little edgier. The audience wasn't ready for it.

Now a lot of people tell me that 'Daud' was ahead of its times. But when it came out, it was panned more than any of my films.

Of all my movies, I feel that 'Krishna Gopalakrishna' remains one of my best works though it could not be called a box office success. I maintain that it was far ahead of its time.

Eccentric is a difficult word because it's come to mean crazy. Avant-garde would be better. Eccentric is not "centric" in terms of having a center. Because sometimes it's used in a derogatory context.

What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'

I did a great show Off-Broadway called Leave It To Beaver Is Dead that was at the Public Theater in New York. It was written by Des McAnuff, who's an illustrious director now, and it starred... Well, I was in it, Mandy Patinkin, Dianne Wiest, Saul Rubinek, and Maury Chaykin. It was an amazing show. But it was definitely ahead of its time, and people didn't quite get it.

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness.

A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.