Joseph Abboud Quotes

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

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

If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.

Good writing is always new.

I think I have some interesting things to say and I don't think anybody out there is saying them.

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.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like 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.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

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

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

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

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

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.

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.