Robyn Quotes

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

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

I'm here to break boundaries, man. That's all. I'm here to be the first so that the people after me don't have to think twice about expressing themselves and being free.

If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That's why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done.

I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.

Since when was genius found respectable?

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.