Unconventional Techniques Quotes

The advancement of style is the cornerstone of hip hop. There is no correct or conservative way to make rap music. Rap is and must remain the answer, the alternative, to the conservative approach of making music.

I think not having come from the DJ world was an asset to me at first because I didn't have some of the habits other DJs had, and I think in a way that set me apart.

Any time you try to apply conventional techniques to Donald Trump, you're going to be disappointed.

Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?

I didn't have the kind of budget to compete with the big studios, therefore I had to make my films more outlandish, more outrageous.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

I was the second guy to submit Jim Miller, so I'm up there in catching guys that have been deemed uncatchable.

Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.

Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.

Surprise is key in all art.

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script, and it's very linear. There's a script, then you're going to shoot the script, and then you cut that, and then that's the end of the film. And that's never really been how I've seen it.

There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.

Even when I teach my MMA classes in the gym, it's hard to teach what I do. It's more of state of flow, a state of feel. It's not a robotic thing like one, two, three, kick, one, two, three, switch, jab, cross. It's completely unorthodox. Everything is about rhythm, tempo and pace. It's a different style, man.

I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally.

Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.

Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like to explore something looser and less precise.

Almost anything can be justified as a style of filmmaking if it works.

Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.

I don't seek out knowledge when it comes to guitar playing; I like to let it happen naturally.

Your first film is always your best film, in a way. There's something about your first film that you never ever get back to, but you should always try. It's that slight sense of not knowing what you're doing, because the technical skills you learn - especially if you have a film that works, that has some kind of success - are beguiling. The temptation is to use them again, and they're not necessarily good storytelling techniques.

Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.

I noticed that there were all these kinds of practices in a working set that had to be un-practiced on 'Far from Heaven,' which was so interesting.

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

I think acting's very natural. It comes from a place of honesty, and if someone tries to teach you their way of doing it, that could be quite damaging.

With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.