Kathleen Kennedy Quotes

You always have to find some new ways. Old ways are too known.

Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.

I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

I want to do something that people have not seen before... surprise everyone. There has to be variety in work.

When you're writing something that is truly original it takes time.

My sound is inventive.

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

I really don't find revivals very interesting because I like new work a lot. I feel like if you're going to pay me, then let me do what I do and let me try to solve some problems. Let me try to make something fly. Why would I do something that everybody has already done the hard work on? But that's me. Tons of people do revivals really well.

I want people to say that I'm something new, something different. Something they've never seen before.

I'm just super into redefining things.

For me, novelty matters; uniqueness matters.

As for the notion that everything has already been said, maybe it has, but life is like meatloaf: there are so many different ways to present it.

There's no-one in particular that we look up to, because we strive to be something that's never gone before.

Everything's so, like, saturated nowadays. So if you wanna, like, make an impact, you gotta do something different. Do something new.

I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel and a lousy film.

When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

I think it's important to always offer something new.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.