Nicolas Roeg Quotes

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

I've never been able to accept any kind of discipline.

What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different.

I was a pretty good kid, but I also knew when it was worth breaking the rules. I don't think that makes you a rebel, though, because that's still exercising some type of caution.

I think that fashion, for a long time, has been in a prison. Without freedom. I think that without freedom, with rules, it's impossible to create a new story.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

All art is based on non-conformity.

You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.