Ross Butler Quotes

What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways.

Thankfully, as much as Hollywood is interested in brands, I think people are still looking for originality and freshness.

The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've written that predictable or boring line, and I will carry that around with me all day.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

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 am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

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.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

I'm a fan of originals and classics, but I'm also a fan of new ideas.

The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.

I always make sure that every film of mine has some element of freshness to it.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

What I feel like science fiction fans respond to is just people trying to hit them with something new, something they haven't seen. And if you do that you'll be okay.

Of course you can't do anything completely original.

Nobody's interested in something that could've been done before.

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

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

I want each season to feel new and special. I don't want it to feel, "Oh, more of this." That's something that's easy to do in the first three seasons, and harder to do as you go. I'd rather err on the side of blowing up everything and being like, "Why did you do that? There was more story to tell there," and moving the family to Mexico like on Weeds, instead of people going, "Oh, we've seen this already. We're tired of this."