Josh Hartnett Quotes

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

There's a large opportunity for Bon Iver to be a special thing, even from a business standpoint - just trying to do cooler things. Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

People don't want just vanilla. They want 31 flavors. I couldn't do what Rihanna does. I couldn't do what Gaga does. They can't do what I do.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

I think I have something unique that I'd like to share.

If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.

Without creativity, I'd be just 'blah blah blah.'

Creative instinct is personal.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.

You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet.

Individuality' is the key to success.

Don't impersonate. Innovate.

I wanted to make something very unique, something very different.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

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

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.