Eric Rohmer Quotes

When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time.

If all the people do the same, I don't want to do it. I want to be on the other side.

I like to be against the odds.

I'm not a sheep.

I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

I don't want to follow the herd.

Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

I've always been like, if society's trying to push me in one direction, I always rebel against it, thinking, 'Nope, I'm going to do the opposite, something that is not expected.'

Never follow the crowd.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

I am a contrarian.

I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.

Sometimes leadership is not going along with everybody else.

Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.

I've always been a bit of a rebel.

Me, I like to go against the grain.

I don't like to be part of the cattle. I like to just do my own thing.

I existed before the mainstream. Why would I join them? I watched the mainstream come up, and now I'm watching it collapse. I don't want to be a part of that.

We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.