Hunter Hayes Quotes

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

If we knew what we were doing we wouldn't be entertaining.

You want to be playing off the cuff sometimes to take chances and make something happen.

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already – the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of.

If you don't have a plan, you can end up doing some interesting things.

The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

I consider projects very deeply, but there's always a point in your life where there's a bit of randomity.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.