Hiro Murai Quotes

And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.

I almost feel more anxious lately about, 'Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.'

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.

When we came up with titles like Ready or Not, that's how we really felt.

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.

When I started 'Record Collection,' I had no idea that it would come out sounding the way that it did, and that's one of the best things about the creative process, taking turns with the things you didn't know.

Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you do - expect the unexpected!

I had my idea of what the series finale of 'King of the Hill' would be, but that's not what the actual series finale was.

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.

Making a musical television show was always the ultimate dream. But I really didn't think it would ever happen. Because who's going to make a musical television show?

One of the interesting parts of being on a television show is you often don't know the fate of your character until you're reading the script. I always look forward to finding out.

Embrace risk. The driving force behind our economic model at Illumination Mac Guff is designed to preserve the opportunity to take risk. Subvert the expectation of the audience. Surprise them with unexpected choices.

There is no way I could have predicted the amazing reception and support that 'Quantico' has received this season or even the way that I have been welcomed into the fold here in America.

I had an amazing experience being on a hit show for Showtime, doing 'Queer as Folk', and impacting things socially, like helping change hearts and minds. It's such a big chapter of my life.

You never know what's going to happen in the draft. You just wait until your name gets called and then things happen.

I don't think we fully understood what the implications could be when we found out we were doing 'SNL.'

If anyone had said that they knew their show was going to run for 15 years, you'd say you're out of your mind.

I do recognise I have a responsibility to the audience. They feel fairly confident that if I'm in something, they can sit down with their family and be entertained by it. I don't desperately want to change that.

I think when 'Perfect Strangers' landed and was so well received, it was a magic moment.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.