Mahesh Babu Quotes

It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

I try not to do anything by formula.

I improvise a lot and try something new every couple of years.

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

It's always been my intention to never be boxed in. I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

To be fair, on a good project, no matter whether it's improvised or scripted or meticulously prepared, or all up for grabs, it's always, always beyond the safety zone. Every project becomes interesting and exciting once you move beyond that routine. You always aspire to that. It's not that this improvisational mode is the only mode that facilitates that.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'

I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the appeal? Tell me what to do, what are the exact lines from the script? Okay, I got it.' I am not that way. I would be a terrible bus driver. I'd want to be like, 'Oh, let's take this side road! Let's see what happens when we go down this back alley.'

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

'Bloodshot,' for me, was unlike anything I'd ever done before, which was really the draw of it. In addition to trying to reconnect with my earlier work, I also wanted to try to do something that was completely new and different.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered.

If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

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

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

I'm not a planner. I like to try something different, to just see what happens.