Uwe Boll Quotes

A true artist is always out of his time.

I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or Peter Weir who are considered not mainstream directors and that could be because they are like my dad. They are pioneers, and pioneers, by definition, invent something new.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not, like, follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it. You know, it's me who's doing it.

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

Successful artists don't follow trends; they create them.

Creative drives our business; the business doesn't drive the creative.

My vision and my creative ability is just so broad.

I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.

Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'

I love creative people.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

I admire people who are creative.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

A lot of companies talk about letting creative lead, but Chanel actually does let it lead.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

I've realised that if I aim for a successful record, I probably won't have any success. But if I keep making weird things, then hopefully the audiences will come to us.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.