Unconventional Outcomes Quotes

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

There's a creative freedom with being under the radar. But I guess if you're too under the radar, you get canceled?

Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect.

That weird dark energy - when I was a kid, I didn't know what it was. I just had to 'thrash it out,' as my mother called it. I became quite intolerable, creatively and artistically, with other people. I wanted nothing more than to be part of a group, and yet I couldn't help alienating people.

I'm not surprised by much in this league. You see and hear all kinds of stuff, you never know what can happen.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken. Or a duck. Or whatever they're programmed to be. You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of the night last week.

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

What you did, nobody wants to know about it, unless you did something exciting.

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.

I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair of pants like that?' I have no idea. I'm not going to have a 20-minute political discussion about the necessity for slashed, painted leather jeans. Basically, I don't know more than you.

Exploring the dark side of my characters' personality is my forte.

And what makes Bob Dylan stories interesting is that the only person who can decide their outcome is Bob Dylan, so you never know how they're going to go.

I'm not really making decisions that people normally expect.

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.