Ben Casnocha Quotes

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

Play is experimenting with chance.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

I do like not knowing where I'm going, wandering in strange woods, whistling and following bread crumbs.

Everything is an experiment.

I like things to be unpredictable.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble.

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book.

My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.

Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.

I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.