Baltasar Gracian Quotes

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

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 always try to incorporate something in every book that I've never used before. Hopefully, spontaneity will keep readers reading.

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

Every show is completely different.

It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.

I want to surprise people with my work every time.

I think the most important thing to putting on a good show is to always mix things up. Sometimes we wear makeup; other times we don't. The point is, you'll never get the same Avenged show twice. I think it's really important to be theatrical. I mean, look at Iron Maiden!

I always kept the fans happy. They always saw a different Rey, whether it was a mask, a design, a color. I never gave them the same thing twice and always kept them on their feet. They were always excited to see what Rey was going to bring to the table.

[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and it's always a surprise.

I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.

Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either to have their expectations blown out of the water, or have no expectations and are dazzled by the decisions that we filmmakers made.

I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

Age, style, where you come from, where you were born, it's different every time, which, to me, is refreshing because it says that there isn't any one thing, one formula or kind of character that makes a great comedian. Everybody has had a different approach.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

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.

And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, 'Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen.'

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

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.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.