Jack Bowman Quotes

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best when they are exploring at the outer limits of what is traditional, acceptable, or conventional.

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 think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

It's a great place to be as an artist: if you confuse your label, you're doing your job.

That's the job of art: to undo the logic of the world.

Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them??

I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.

I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.

I like the idea of subversively communicating with people... so that you make people see things in different ways.

You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

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

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

A new medium always has a period when it is struggling inside the confining box of an earlier medium. Creators have to unlearn what they knew before they can see the fresh, uncharted vistas stretching before them.

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.

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

These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power.