Rene Redzepi Quotes

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.'

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

There's nobody you can call and say, 'So, can you maybe send me your formula for frying Hollandaise?' because to the best of my knowledge, it didn't exist before we did it.

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

There's a freshness to the approach of teen chefs. They're lighthearted, and they're not afraid to take risks.

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.

I am not very convinced with having a signature dish. The whole point of being a chef is going to a new place, adapting and curating a new menu as per the culture and community.

The rule I stand by as an artist is definitely be yourself, and don't make music just for other people: make it for you first.

I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

Make sure that everything you produce and create is organic to you.

It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

The concern about what's too violent or what's too scary is something that I just completely don't let enter into my creative process. I feel like, if I spend a lot of time trying to worry about whether it will appeal to everyone and who will like it and who won't, and I try to please everyone, I'll just spread myself too thin and lose my mind.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I'm not a student of the genre. I don't care what anybody else does.

It's kind of liberating to be able to bring your own ideas to things, but it's also a lot of pressure, it's like screenwriting on your feet.

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you get rather annoyed with people saying what species the real plum was.

I never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.

My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.

I didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me. I started totally free and crazy and innocent. Now I've seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don't do commercials, I don't do films pre-prepared by other people, I don't do star system. So I do my own little thing.

I don't chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative is all about you.

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!