Rod Lurie Quotes

I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting.

I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.

People don't expect me to make pop music.

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.

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

I like to take risks and do weird things and stuff that's not normal compared to other Hollywood movies. Not stuff that's totally avant garde and daring, but doing stuff that's in other languages and not using stars and using real people - things that they generally don't do in mainstream films.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

As a creator, I always want to betray fans' expectations.

I definitely like a little bit of darkness, a little edge. I get a little bored when things are maybe too simple or too... expected.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I went to grad school because I wanted to learn the rules so I would know how to break them. Breaking the rules is saying, 'I'm breaking in, OK? I'm breaking in your very comfortable little house over here, and I'm going to take a room.'

I find that I'm quite experimental. I'm drawn to the brighter and weirder things.

Lil Uzi and I gave Philly different sounds by stepping outside of the box and not sticking to the stigma.

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.

There are so many rules about how you make a film and so many conventions that you can and can't do. I think people have forgotten that they are just rules that were invented for convenience - sometimes it is more convenient not to obey the rules.

Why should I limit myself or drive myself towards a woman-centric film. Sometimes, the most interesting role is not that of the protagonist.

I've always made a point to play roles that aren't specified by their ethnicity.

I wanted to break the idea of what male performers are supposed to show, what performances girl groups are supposed to show. I really wanted to break those labels, showing that dance is a form of art.

In the case of 'Thor,' it was just casting the best people for the part. Ken Branagh had the idea to cast Idris Elba as Heimdall, and we didn't blink at that chance to do it.

I like interesting casting, and casting people who you think might be slightly different in parts.

Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move.