John Landis Quotes

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.

We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.

you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.

Anyone you give a ton of money to is going to go slightly crazy. I don't think comedians are particularly special in that regard; they just are better or more vocal in their expressions of their craziness.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.

Michael Keaton is amazing. He's one of my favorite actors. To get to work with him was a privilege and really was a wonderful thing.

I think every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy.

I'm a bit crazy, yes.

I guess you could say I'm a little crazy.

We have to understand that all geniuses have a crazy side to them.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.