Unorthodox Approaches Quotes

I pride myself on being able to create mismatches. That's what I've done my whole life.

It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon ...

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.

It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing, and there is the chance nature has prepared yet another surprise for us.

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.

When you're really having fun, you're always doing it a little bit in a way that you're not supposed to. That's when great things happen.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

I'm not your average politician. I believe in higher forces.

I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.

The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.

Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different, and critics say we make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different, and you get kicked in the gut for it.

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

Mars Volta was always about embracing what 'too much' was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an audience for it.

I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

I spent my whole musical career trying to be different and make songs that people think shouldn't go together... go together.

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

Extraordinary situations require an out-of-box thinking. Conventionalists cannot find such solutions.