Lexi Alexander Quotes

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

I base everything on my instinctual approach. There's something very satisfying in that creativity, and it's a bit like an infant drawing.

All art is based on non-conformity.

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

I'm interested in the kind of anti-establishment ethos that goes with making an independent movie. I like to bring that to studio films - usually to the consternation of the studios.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

You may confuse a lot of people when going against the grain of conventional thinking, and that's perfectly okay. As an entrepreneur, standing up for your vision to your family and friends might possibly be the best practice you will get for the life that awaits you.

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

I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.