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.
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When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.
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.
It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.
The avant-garde makes more sense to me.
I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.
We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.
There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.
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 always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.