John W. Gardner Quotes

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

I think I always had, like, a rebellious spirit. But it wasn't a rebellious spirit to do wrong. It was a rebellious spirit to do something different.

I've always wanted to be my own player from the start and do things a bit differently to what the others do. I want to play my own way.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

All art is based on non-conformity.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I just like doing things from my own head.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

Nothing that I've done has been conventional. I didn't go with a major label, I didn't sign up with the bigwig management that basically has everyone but doesn't have time for anyone. I didn't win 'Idol' - I was seventh. I don't do anything how everybody else does it.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

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