Kenneth Branagh Quotes

I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.

If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.

I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!

If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.

I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.

My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.

The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.

You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

I think rappers spend a lot of time trying to figure out what is new. 'How can I say this in a way that no one has ever said it before?'

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

It's hard to find things that haven't been said before or drawn before, but I'm trying.

I've always tried to do things a little bit before they were being done by the mainstream. I challenge myself to do that in stand-up also, to talk about things that I'm not hearing anybody talk about onstage and in the media.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

Originality is really important.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

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 never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out.

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.

I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.