Drew Goddard Quotes

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

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.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

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.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.

I didn't want to make a game unless I felt in the position to make something new and different.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

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

I've always been a great believer that you have to keep producing new things in order to keep life interesting - not only for ourselves, but for the audience as well. That's really always been our principle and way of working.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

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

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.