Troy Nixey Quotes

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.

Originality is only variation.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.

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.'

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

I hope to bring fresh ideas to the big screen.

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.

I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they'd see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.