Matt Groening Quotes

I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!

The thing I'm most proud of about - not all of our movies, but a lot of our movies - is that you might love 'em, you might hate 'em, but most of the time, they're trying to be different or trying new things, which I think is really important.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Every time, I try to make something different.

I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can.

I want to work with anybody original.

If anyone thinks they have set a formula for success, that's not true. Because if that were to happen then people would only be copying that formula and every following film would be a copy alone.

Nothing I've done is like anything else I've done before.

Always do something different from the others.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

I will always look for things that are different from the last thing I played.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

I have always been a person who does things differently.