Tan Le Quotes

I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I've worked with a lot of first time directors; in fact, I enjoy it because there is a certain beginner's mind that they bring into a project that isn't loaded with the way things have been done before. There's a certain freedom to it.

I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work.

I just can't help but see things differently.

I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.

It's not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities.

My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything. I think what I create is serious fashion, but I don't want to keep my focus on that. You have to look at a lot of different things. I mean, people are always surprised when they find out that my favorite show is 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.