Karyn Kusama Quotes

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am.

I suppose that I'm excited by exciting theater. It takes a risk to show us the world in a new way.

As an actor, I have always believed that content is the king, and I have always put my neck on the line to choose cinema that is off the beaten track.

I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules.

When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.

I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.

Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. Actually, if you follow a formula, you will probably end up with a bad movie.

I'm always trying to do weird things - when you have that part of your mission statement as an actor, half of that stuff that ends up being made is probably garbage.

I've always looked forward to do something different in all my films.

'Eagle vs Shark' is a little film I could take risks with and make mistakes on.

Experimental or independent cinema is so exciting because it is about risk-taking, as there is no formula.

That's the beautiful thing about being an artist, is you can take risks and take chances and hopefully be secure enough to just keep going with it if you fall flat on your face.

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

I’m an actor who’s accustomed to bringing a lot of stuff to the table, and you have to be ready because some of them will be accepted and some of them will be rejected. Then you need a generous, free, fearless, loving director like Tarantino to allow you to take those risks.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

Creative risks will always outweigh technical mistakes.

It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usually are more complicated.

I've always felt that an independent film is a film that almost doesn't get made.

I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer. You want to go see a film that surprises you in some way.