Steve Buscemi Quotes

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.

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

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.

It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing, I don't know if it's any good, I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. Not just a creative fantasy world or something like that, but a mood too.

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Definition is the death of discovery.

Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you have to get rid of all those internal censors that we adults have, the things that say, 'Don't go there, that's not allowed.'

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

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

I guess I still have this motto: 'What else can I get away with?' And unpredictability in film - that's the hardest thing there is.

With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.

It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.

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

One of the things with the second record, a word I held close to my chest was 'brave.' To take chances to go outside the box and explore. To continue to toss off any expectation that our fans or anyone else might have of us, to just tap into who I am as a writer and artist and really just operate within that freedom of creation.