Wayne White Quotes

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

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

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

I want to be a band that people haven't seen.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I'd like to change what people expect. I want to evoke something that's not nameable, for people to go, 'Huh?'

Eliminator' was a big, experimental thing.

When creating 'Cowboy Bebop,' I thought it would be more interesting if I added different types of elements together to create something that was completely new.

It's good to give people a jolt. If they're expecting one thing, it's important to give them something else. If you do something startling, audiences might at first freak out, but then they start to think, 'This is not going to be conventional. I'm going to enjoy this.'

My sound is inventive.

Any time people are breaking outside the norm and playing something that isn't expected - that feels like punk to me.

The works we do in Moooi are very diverse, very eclectic. That's how we like it.

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

I like the fact that I like to think out-of-the-box. Thinking out-of-the-box goes along with dressing out-of-the-box and living out-of-the-box. If you want to come up with a really original design idea and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.

I really do think that if you're doing your job right, you're never gonna be what the other actor was, but you can be influenced by his intelligence and his choices.

I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.

I don't like the fact that people are supposed to think horror movies have a way things should go. I always try to do the exact opposite of what people expect and want.

We do not want to repeat ourselves [in Doctor Strange] or do what's been done before necessarily, and when you have a track record now you can either do that and keep, this seems to work and let's keep doing this - which some people accuse us of no matter what, because I don't think they pay attention, but really what we do is say, 'Okay, we have a studio that trusts us and let's us do what we want for the most part with the creative.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

Different times call for different attitudes. But I love your generation because you are so creative and innovative in how you wear things, how you think, how you approach everything.

It's great to have people to bounce off and I love working with people my age. I think young actors have such energy about them and such a passion and a drive to do their best and prove themselves constantly, and to work with that is really fun and interesting.

To be really great and interesting, you have to be a little crazy. I just don't think one comes without the other.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.