Albert Camus Quotes

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.

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

Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

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

My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true of me, too.

I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

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

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

I've never been a yes man.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

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

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.

If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely.

John Waters has certainly gotten to a place in his life where he doesn't do anything he doesn't want to do. He's always been that way, but at this point, he's greatly respected for it.

I am anti-ideological. Ideology destroys your freedom. It binds you to the herd.