Dylan McDermott Quotes

I'm not worried about making a certain type of music or sticking to one type of music.

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me if it's something I haven't done before.

And I'm interested in writing music that takes risks. My point is that maybe the term EDM is pinned on me and my buddies, but maybe it'll be less so if I experiment.

I don't know what genre out there that I would be afraid to do. If I am afraid to do it, that's not my cup of tea. It ain't much that's not my cup of tea.

I love experimenting and doing new things in life, and if things fall into place, I'm ready to take up acting, too.

The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.

My only job has been to say that you have to, try different things and let yourself become a different person, have experiences.

I believe the path to a long career is to keep the audience guessing. Daniel Day Lewis is my absolute hero from that point of view. I literally will pay to see anything he does because I know it's going to be something different than I have already seen.

I find that the projects I enjoy signing up to at the moment are with a director who's interested in the script - isn't completely sure what the movie is and isn't concerned about it. He's just interested in going on the journey and discovering it.

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

I feel very open to trying new things.

I think some people get just locked into 'this is the way it has to be,' and they're afraid of messing something up. I don't ever want to be that way with shooting or with anything, really - not just shooting.

I just wanted to get out there and do different roles and try new things.

I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.

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

I love working with actors who will just go, 'Oh O.K., let's try it and see where it goes,' and 'Let's see what we can discover.'

To work with different singers gives us creative freedom because we can experiment with different sounds on every song.

If someone offers a film, I'm willing to do it if it's something I have not done before or pushes my boundary.

The only way I'm comfortable with a new album is if I'm taking a new risk.

I love to experiment, to push myself, and I want people to accept me in roles that I have never attempted before.

Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.

I remember on my very first film, which Steven Soderberg executive-produced, he said, 'Try not to repeat yourself. Do things that scare you.' Even if it's a challenge, I want people to say that this guy tried this thing. Hopefully he learned from it.

It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.

I've worked with directors who have done it too much, particularly in television, you know, 'okay we got it, let's move on, next setup.' 'Well what about, we could maybe investigate?' 'Mmm… no, let's go.'