Mark Foster Quotes

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.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.

In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

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.

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

I always just experiment with different sounds and styles until I find something that evokes the feeling I'm going for. I'm not trying to think too much about what anyone else is doing.

I'm so happy when someone does something original, and there's no focus group or planning committee. If the cinema doesn't get an injection of that once in a while, we're in trouble.

You can't put me in a box, because then it's just like, you're not gonna get anything.

The goal is never be a copycat of ourselves. It's more along the lines of taking risks in our music.

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

I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.

I want to encourage Filipino artists to be original, write your own songs and don't be afraid to go outside the box and try new things.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily fit the form. I've never felt limited in that respect in terms of songwriting.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Over the years, I discovered over and over again that once you lose control, you have a chance of getting good at it. And once you're controlling the work, it's not going to be very good, or it won't be as good as it should be.