Jerry Harrison Quotes

I realise that I'm a bit of a dabbler but it's nice to do stuff that's different.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.

I just like to do different parts.

I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.

Every time, I try to make something different.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.

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 just not sticking to one thing. I like to have fun with it. I like to spread myself in many ways, so you're gonna get all types of music.

I try to make my box as big as it can be because I never want to do the same thing twice.

Some artists are like ready-salted crisps and just do what they are supposed to do. But I'm every flavour in one. I'm one of those variety packs.

I've never sampled just one artist, I'm known for my reputation and my creativity.

I want to make every film different from my previous one.

The idea is to resist being typecast. I like doing different things.

I like to dabble in a lot of things.

I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore, I wanted us not to try to follow Spamalot immediately, but to do something different. This is perfect because it uses all the same skills, like story telling and lyric writing and music writing, but it's presenting it in a different form. And of course it gives me and John a nice chance to perform and show off which is also fun.

I like to try and mix diction and experiences.

I do think that the more takes you have the more opportunity to experiment [but] at a certain point, there are diminishing returns. There's only so much variety you offer.

I have a gut reaction to stuff that I read. Either it's a filmmaker that I really want to work with, or it's a story that I really want to be a part of and help serve, or there's a character that I feel I can bring something unique to. That's really what it's about. I would go crazy, if I just relied on the same tricks and did the same thing, all the time. It was just be no fun, at all. I really do need to try something different, every time out, and do something that scares me, a little bit.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

I never work with one inspiration in mind. I like to take things from everywhere and piece it together. It's never a theme or a trick.

I never want to repeat the same thing. I always want it to be different from what I've done, and to be not quite sure whether or not I can pull it off, until I hopefully do.