Carmen Cusack Quotes

When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

As a writer, as a lyricist, you're just trying to make sure that you're not repeating yourself. And that's a danger for a lot of people. So for me, I just try to keep taking corners and trying to find new paths.

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

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.

I've learned that you can do something great, but you have to continue reinventing yourself as an artist. So by the time someone else is copying your style, you have something else to offer your audience.

I always look for projects that are risky and ones that want to do something unique. If audiences don't like it, you feel good knowing that you were brave enough to do something original. If they do like it, you feel like everyone is rewarded, because we all got to see something new.

As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.

Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.

I learned with 'The Disaster Artist,' when I was writing the book, the audience will follow you if you really try to do something different. The biggest thing is, you want to be genuine and try to surprise your audience with kind of a new direction.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let's put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

There's no real theatre without taking risks.

We're in a very competitive industry, and sometimes the bigger Hollywood things are not so risk takey. I find myself mostly existing in this weirdo indie world, which I feel really comfortable being in. The thing that motivates me the most is to try to do something way different than the last thing that I did.

When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.

Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.

As artists, you always want to push yourself. There's always new territory.

A lot of artists talk about getting out of their comfort zones and being the most proud of their newest album. But it is true for me. I rethought a lot of what I do.