Jason Blum Quotes

I don't see myself directing the same movie twice.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

You know that scenario where roses are red, leaves are green, I love arguing that. ‘Why should they be?’. I hate rules and formulas. That’s so boring. It’s the opposite of creativity. Rules are ridiculous things that are meant to be broken.

I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.

What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.

What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity.

I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

There are so many rules in the art world. I don't like rules and I break them all the time. I don't care if people think I'm overexposed. What I care about is if I'm going to run out of energy. Overexposure is only a problem if you are drained of energy and cannot come up with new ideas. Every artist has to recognize that and know when to stop for a moment.

It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and lend a piece of yourself to that art.

- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!

What you create doesn't have to be perfect.

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

The great artist takes what he needs.

I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.

One must not imitate what one wants to create.

When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?

I looked at the world of books and just went, Oh my gosh, if I'm writing novels, I'm on the same shelves as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens and Petronius - whereas with comics, they've only been doing them for a hundred years, and there's stuff that nobody's done before. I think I'll go off and do some of the stuff no one's ever done before.

Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

You cannot play for safety and make art.

My thing is: stay creative. And just because somebody starts to pay you, that don't mean all your creativity goes to that, and you don't save none for yourself to be able to do other, bigger and better things and still follow your dreams even if you start off inside of a box.