Kristan Higgins Quotes

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.

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.

I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you've got to tell a bigger truth in whatever you're doing, but the truth is not popular.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.

I'm tired of living the vanilla, non-offensive life. I think that's a really sad way to spend my life, and I lived it like that because that's what I was brought up in, taught to not rock the ship.

It is difficult to be that band that doesn't do things the way other bands do it. It's a blessing and a curse.

I like to try and be outside of the box or do things that other people aren't doing.

I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

I only take up roles that really appeal to me, and like to break the rules as an actress.

It takes someone like Ram Gopal Varma to change the norms, bend the rules, shake convention, and come up with something like 'Road.'

Sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable. I remember at the very beginning actually, the first person I had to convince was myself really because there's a self-censorship. When everybody says 'we don't do silent movies anymore,' you agree with everybody, and you say 'yeah, you're right.' It was a fantasy.

I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.

I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.

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

I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy film. I set my own trends. I like to give something new and different to my audiences. I want to do the kind of comedy that has been missing till now.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.

I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.

Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write about.