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In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

I like breaking the rules.

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

Jacques Derrida

Rules

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

Claude Debussy

Art

Rules

I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.

I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules.

Kieran Culkin

Rules

Years

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

Bill Cosby

Civilization

Rules

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

Billy Corgan

Play

Rules

While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.

Joel Coen

Rules

Violence

The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.

Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rules made necessary by a huge population.