Herbie Hancock Quotes

We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.

So much of television is incredibly predictable. You watch the first five minutes and you know where it's going to go. If you can just create an element of surprise in both the storytelling and tone of a show, you're going to be way ahead of the pack.

I love fresh ideas and want to do films which offer something new.

My constant endeavour is to offer something new to the audience. Every movie I pick, including 'Loafer', which offers a strong mother sentiment, tries to give the audiences a sense of watching something different.

I'm always constantly trying to find stuff that's different. It's a way to keep me on my toes and keep me interested and keep me excited about work.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

Since the first 'Singham,' many films have that kind of action. So we have to work harder to create something new.

I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!

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

You have to keep surprising your audience.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

Surprise is key in all art.

You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

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

I try to make things that are fresh and different, even if they are inspired by classic things.

I think if you're gonna do something as silly and lighthearted as entertainment, then why not be interesting when you're doing it?

I don't want to come in and do something that's been done before. You know, for me, it's not that I wouldn't come in and do a sequel to something, but it's only if I can bring something new to the table and I'm not following an extremely strict path.

It's difficult, very difficult to create something new every time in this space of horror and scare people every time.

What's challenging is to surprise the audience.

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.

The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.

We try to bring something different for every tour.

The most important thing in the professional wrestling industry in this day and age of technology and the Internet and social media is to be able to make wrestling unpredictable.