Norman Mailer Quotes

If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

To me, one of the big fears of doing a big huge graphic novel is locking yourself into one style and getting halfway through it and going, 'Oh I made the wrong choice,' which is a recurring nightmare I have.

Any change in my style depends on many things, but it's whatever fits the project. It's important to me to make style changes from time to time; it makes me feel alive as an artist. For instance, with 'Moonshine,' I'm doing all my own coloring. That's a new development!

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.

As far as being locked into one certain thing, that's not what I want to do. I just want the opportunity to go off and do something else, whether it's plays or musicals or whatever.

I don't think one should be a slave to one medium.

I'm open to trying multiple different types of styles.

Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.

I would never pigeon hole myself stylistically because I just don't know what I am going to want to do next.

We don't really think about it in a formulaic way, we just use the different styles as and when it feels right.

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

The works we do in Moooi are very diverse, very eclectic. That's how we like it.

It's awesome that we can make more and more movies that are crossing boundaries.

I just believe that in Atlanta, we're creative; we got a lot of styles out here.

Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.

Each movie is different because each audience is different. You're not dictated by what they tell you to do. You're more dictated by seeing symptoms of things you didn't intend, and how you can fix those symptoms.

It's just nice to do something a bit different, and I guess when you're an actor, you have the license to do that.

I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

Ultimately I want to be able to create whatever I want whenever I want. And if that doesn't work, I don't mind just doing weird plays.

I know my style of music is very eclectic.

Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose its identity.

It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.