Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
'Deadpool' is a quirky universe, which is all about being outside of the box, unlike a normal superhero film.
Occasionally, you might enjoy the luxury of an unexpressed thought.
Comment to Senator Howard Baker who had just finished giving a very long maiden speech to the Senate.
When I was young, I was a kid that never stopped. I wanted to do everything; a lot of energy. I didn't have this big hair. But I was a happy person.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.
I don't want to create any particular kind of image; I just want to do different types of films.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
We are under no delusions as to the innate goodness even of very small children. They are bad a great deal of the time, but before it has been knocked out of them, they see no limit to the potentialities of the human will. Theirs is the faith to move mountains, because they do not yet know the fearful heft of them.
I have not done much as an actor. There is no end for an artist, and my best is yet to come.
I started writing 'Normal People' not knowing that anyone would read it, not knowing that anyone would read the first book, so I didn't really have any hang ups about, 'Oh, I can't do this again. I've done this already.' It was just a project I was working on for my own amusement.
Genius is always impatient of its harness; its wild blood makes it hard to train.
I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.
I'm fascinated with what happens to the creative output when you isolate yourself from the approval and disapproval of the people around you.
I wrote a lot of 'Driving on the Rim' by giving myself the gift of being just as eccentric as I felt like.
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.
I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an unforgettable way.
Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.
I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.
Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.
I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.