Astro Teller Quotes

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.

We're trying to do the thing you don't expect out of country music. Which is to say, 'Go see the world.'

Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.

I hope to always keep stretching myself and not stay in one box or lane.

You can't be limited by your own experience.

A culture that only recognizes and rewards the same set of attributes results in less collaboration, creativity, and innovation. If we only reward the loudest voices or the sharpest elbows, then we're missing out on the full range of talent.

I want to do a lot of different things and dive into different worlds.

Being tied down to a pre-med or engineering track would have slotted me into a very narrow group. Being a young filmmaker allowed me to explore many areas of life and many kinds of people.

I'm very musically curious and I love new experience. I'm an adventurer. Some people want to sort of stay in a safe zone and repeat the same things and give them more depth, and I want to do new things all the time

Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

'Narnia' has opened my eyes to a lot of things. I feel lucky that I'm able to travel; I'm not stuck in my hometown, meeting the same kind of girls and saying hi to the same people, week after week. There are so many interesting, intelligent girls out there.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

I always do something that I've never done before.

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

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

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

It's fun doing new things.