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I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence - putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply - if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise.