Daniel Handler Quotes

On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.

What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.

I'm really a believer in being in situations that feel new and awkward and different. And I love that feeling of being in motion - that sense you find when you're traveling.

It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.

I'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different the atmosphere can be, and how disorienting it can be - especially if there's any kind of trouble.

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

I definitely like creative, exciting adventures.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.

Every day is an adventure.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

I love trying new things.

I'm always trying to think of things we haven't done.

The unknown is very appealing to me. I like to be surprised. I love the idea I might know less at the end of reading something than I do at the beginning.

When traveling, we continually are 'discovering' what our day will be. We are in a new environment, perhaps a different culture, interacting with strangers who might have different priorities than we ourselves have.

Life will be interesting only when there is an element of surprise in it.

The general direction seems to be becoming fairly clear to me, but every new piece is a small adventure.

I'm greedy for experience. I keep finding new things.

I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.