Damian Woetzel Quotes

I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who I am. I just want to keep doing that.

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

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

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.

Projects you think are no-brainers stall, and other things see the light of day. You never count anything out.

I don't want to limit myself to any genre or language or a type. I want to always surprise the audience and, hence, keep raising the bar for myself.

Don't play the way it goes. Play the way it is. And the way it is every time you play it, it's slightly different. Look for something. So that's the challenge not to be bored.

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.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

I really don't look at myself as just one thing. I'm kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

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.

Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

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

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.