Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

I'm not the average artist.

I don't think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

When I was going to film school, before film school, my hero was David Lynch.

I know that whatever I put out, whether people think it's pop or noise or whatever, it's always going to be some kind of a freak or mutation. It's not going to be anything pure that a lot of people will relate to. And that's fine.

I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.

I have 30 years of experience working with Leos Carax, so all the films of Leos Carax are unusual or unique. I look at them as a journey: a journey which is very personal to Leos.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.

I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or Peter Weir who are considered not mainstream directors and that could be because they are like my dad. They are pioneers, and pioneers, by definition, invent something new.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

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

Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.

For the theatrical experience to survive, spectacle films need to expand their definition of what they can be. They need to be unique and true voices of the filmmakers behind them. They can't just be copying what came before them.

Films should involve a director's idiosyncrasies as much as possible I think.

I'd really love to watch David Lynch work, to be a fly on the wall.

With the 'Boosh,' we were trying to do this strange, weird thing that had its own language and visual style, and it wasn't really what the powers that be wanted.

A lot of the surreal filmmakers, like David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, or countless other underground filmmakers... Their sense of explosive images have always dominated their films. It's a way to shock the senses, to make them open themselves.

I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste.

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.

I never claimed to be a generic artist, period. I never wanted to be a generic artist.

To be an artist that is fully original, it doesn't exist.

I remember John Waters's 'Pink Flamingos,' that was the film where I realized you could do anything you want - there were no boundaries.

Locke' is a different way of making a film as well as being a different sort of film.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.