Thayer David Quotes

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

Sometimes we get bored and want to shake up our format. It's a luxury we have on public access - no one cares about us. It literally doesn't matter if we fail, so sometimes we try to go really big and out of the box.

I think I had more freedom when I began making films. I did not know what could not be done. I was naive. I did what I wanted to. As you gain awareness, you start losing freedom.

Doing the podcast, the whole reason to do it is just because I can do whatever I want.

Being in a space that's not a studio, it kind of creates an openness of 'We can do whatever we want here; we're not on the clock.'

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.

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

Don't put yourself in a box. Become anything that you want to be.

I tried to make people see that I'm not someone to be put in a box. I can do it all.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

I've really pushed the limits of what you can get away with at big studios, and I've been extremely well-supported.

I keep a band of great young people around me, and we're not musically restrained. It's not about 'Let's do it correct' but 'Let's do it right.'

It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.

When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

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.

Californian artists are kind of willing to push the limits a little bit further just because that's kind of our mentality in that state.

I've got a comfortable home for my music where I can put out whatever the hell I want, and I feel like the slate is really clean, and I can get away with anything. It's a nice, free feeling.

I don't like to limit myself.

The best technology is when you are free to do what you want.

We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with one thing. We didn't want to be scared to do anything that we wanted to do. We didn't want anything to hold us back. We wanted no boundaries.

You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea.

I started writing 'Normal People' not knowing that anyone would read it, not knowing that anyone would read the first book, so I didn't really have any hang ups about, 'Oh, I can't do this again. I've done this already.' It was just a project I was working on for my own amusement.

I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

Being on Netflix lets us be experimental. We can do crazy things.