Ferran Adria Quotes

This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.

You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.

The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!

Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.

I'm all about risque - I love that stuff. I love to be creative - that's what the entertainment business is about.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

I liked Amy Winehouse a lot. I liked the way she did what she wanted, and she wasn't fazed about the press being on her back. I loved her songs so much.

A famous man once said, 'A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone.' Some might say I built a career on doing just the opposite of pleasing everyone.

I like to rattle cages.

We don't want to be the standard thing. We're more interested in having people hate us than glaze over us. We'd rather have a reaction than be in the middle.

It takes someone like Ram Gopal Varma to change the norms, bend the rules, shake convention, and come up with something like 'Road.'

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

You have to remember the police used to raid and arrest the audience for seeing Scorpio Rising (1964), or Jack Smith movies. Wouldn't that be exciting today, if you see went to the movie and everyone at the IFC was arrested in a paddy wagon and taken away?

Creativity is an act of defiance.

Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.

All art is based on non-conformity.

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.