Andy Summers Quotes

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.

If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

I've always tried to do things a little bit before they were being done by the mainstream. I challenge myself to do that in stand-up also, to talk about things that I'm not hearing anybody talk about onstage and in the media.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

The innovator, however, must in the first place be discontented, he must doubt the value of what he is doing or question the accepted ways of doing it. And secondly, he must be prepared to take fresh paths, to venture into fields where he is by no means expert. This is true, at least, of major forms of innovation; they make it possible for other men to be expert, but are not themselves forms of expertise

We're impressed by people who don't know what can't be done.