Jean Cocteau Quotes

If it's genuinely new, when people are hearing it, they're not really gonna be comfortable because they haven't heard it a thousand times before.

All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.

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

There's no-one in particular that we look up to, because we strive to be something that's never gone before.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

I wanted to make something very unique, something very different.

Originality is really important.

Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.

Anytime you do something different, a lot of attention gets put on it.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

I want good and different parts, different from what I've done.

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.

When something is new, it creates a new kind of fear.

I have a hatred of familiarity. If I feel like I am doing something I've done before, it feels old and done. I feel I have no choice but to strike out in directions that feel new - anything less just doesn't seem worth it.

I want to do something that people have not seen before... surprise everyone. There has to be variety in work.

I am not like any other singer in America - I am a new creation.

I was different. I wasn't like anyone else. The business has never seen the likes of me, ever, and probably never will.

For me, novelty matters; uniqueness matters.

'Last Man' is different from anything I've ever seen or done.

It's more interesting to see new people on the screen when you go to the cinema. I don't want to see the same old faces.