Greg Rucka Quotes

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be.

I am constantly trying to push my boundaries and break the mould that has been made for leading actresses, and it is such great fun.

Be it in the movies I make or on stage, I think it's a trap to keep doing the same thing over and over again.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

With rare exceptions, I respond most to painting that cuts across grain rather than following it. I think the artist here can get in touch with that grain rather than simply feel its flow. And he really can't cut right across it anyway.

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.

I love challenging the status quo.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

I've always questioned the way dancers, myself included, must do the same role year in and year out. It's important for me to be able to say to myself, 'O.K., I don't want to be a prince anymore. I want to put on a leather jockstrap and pose.'

People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.

I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

As a creator, I always want to betray fans' expectations.

I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

I like the idea of, not shocking people, but just throwing people off. Doing something that makes people go, 'Whoa, whoa, she did that next? Wow, didn't think she was gonna do something like that next.'