Unconventional Methodology Quotes

The way I play is very unique.

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

I hope our legacy will be enduring and that people think of us as an important band. But I think Ricky's guitar playing, our style of writing, the fact that we had men and women in the band and gay and straight, I think it's an important band, and the way we wrote by jamming, we really had a different approach.

If I get in the studio, it's very organic. I like to go off how I feel.

The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.

I work with my instincts. I don't have a process that I learned in an acting class whereby I break a script down or whereby I do a certain kind of research.

I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.'

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

I don't have what German directors call 'a concept' - a solid, fixed sense of the pattern that you should impose on the given work. I always get the feeling that I am raking up the earth rather than laying down the concrete.

I had never seen anyone edit the way that I edit before I did it, and it's just what felt right to me.

We've got to understand what wins and what loses for us. What's our formula? For us, it might not be flashy. It might be boring football, but it works for us.

We'll go in one direction with one album, and then we like to do the opposite right away. But it's not like we ever have an idea before we start - that would be too artificial. It all starts from just sitting in a room and playing.

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

I can't describe how I make a film. It's organic.

The way that I work is I didn't go to drama school or anything like that so I have no choice but to be instinctual because I don't have a tool kit in the same way.

For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like, 'How do I make this film?' That's part of the pleasure, and that's why I'm not a normal professional director.