Controlled Chaos Quotes

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

The key is you don't want to control the controlled stuff too much and you don't want to be too free flowing in uncontrolled situations. That can be a contentious issue with some directors. The joy of my career is I've gotten to work with great directors who get that balance.

And for it to make the statement the way that it did, for 'Controlled Chaos' to debut in the Top 10 of the iTunes rock chart... We debuted behind Queen and Chris Cornell, so it's not like we were just hidden away in the back of the instrumental metal category.

Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock.

Like chaos in a glass cage.

I like playing someone with a certain stability at the periphery of the madness.

I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.

It's always exciting when you can go into a mode where you can be both spontaneous and choreographed. Sort of in control and out of control at the same time.

I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!

If it is not a mess, it is not progress.

'Nicholas Nickleby' was the best example, where 43 people could make an audience of 1,500 look at a fingernail at any given moment. It was so controlled, and yet it was a group of disparate individuals. It was a happy, constructive time, and it seemed to be an active discussion of what makes the theater work.

I often need a limited space. It's like having a house to roam around in and reinvent and have things to happen in, kind of like a French farce. Doors opening, doors closing, new people arriving, and disappearing, and so forth.

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

Trying to capture the essence of India is almost like trying to bottle magic, which is hard to do because India is so broad and diverse - it's controlled chaos. But there's spirituality and wholeness to the people.

Making 'Caddyshack' was like an exercise in controlled chaos.

A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward.

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.

But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.