Danny Ozark Quotes

I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

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

My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.

The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.

Normal is the average of deviance.

I have a different mentality than most guys, I guess.

Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.

I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.

I'm not the same as other people. I don't think the same. I don't do the same things. I just feel out of this world sometimes.

You know, I hate to borrow Apple's tag, but think different. Really. From the very beginning. I didn't know what the fast-food rules were. I got my training at the Culinary Institute Of America, and then I opened up a fast food place according to fine dining rules.

I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.

I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that should be your model, even if all your friends and all the critics storm at you as a crotchet-monger and an eccentric.

Originality is in the eye of the beholder.

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt.

Géza Röhrig is just incredible because he's not an actor, he's a Hungarian poet. He also happens to be a brilliant actor. He's totally unusual, the way he talks and thinks and operates isn't in the same language as you're used to from actors who've been in a lot of things before. It brings this completely bizarre and fresh, wonderful way of approaching everything that I love being around. Not where I'm, as a producer, having to interact with him as an artist, but as somebody who can stand back and admire what he's bringing to this thing that I've nurtured to create a stage for him.

To be a true icon, you have to have style emanating from you. And you have to have figured it out on your own and have a point of view, a perspective, and be able to translate it in some personal way.

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.