Paul Newman Quotes

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

This is my year of the remake. Go for it, see what you can do, guys, why not?

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

I wouldn't want to make the same film every time. I get easily bored.

I'd rather risk confusion and stay creatively fresh and stimulated. I feel like I'm growing and challenging myself all the time.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

I'm all for trying anything once; otherwise, you end up like David Guetta - reproducing the same formula over and over.

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

I always look for reinventing myself... doing something different and new.

I will always do something new.

I really don't find revivals very interesting because I like new work a lot. I feel like if you're going to pay me, then let me do what I do and let me try to solve some problems. Let me try to make something fly. Why would I do something that everybody has already done the hard work on? But that's me. Tons of people do revivals really well.

We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.

If the way they make the show makes it fresh, then it's worthwhile. I think all of these forms have to be blown up every now and then and start again.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.