Joe Carnahan Quotes

When you think 'Peaky Blinders,' when it first began it got mixed reviews and people didn't know what to do with it, and it was like: 'Why is there modern music on this?' So I think whenever you do something different you're going to get that response.

I never imagined myself doing a one-man show. If I'm going to do one, I'd rather do one that breaks all the rules.

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

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

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

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

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.

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.

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

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

The thing I'm most proud of about - not all of our movies, but a lot of our movies - is that you might love 'em, you might hate 'em, but most of the time, they're trying to be different or trying new things, which I think is really important.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

I'm trying to do different music, and I'm trying to be out of the box.

It's important to be unconventional.

What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move.

I like to try and be outside of the box or do things that other people aren't doing.

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