Nathan Fielder Quotes

All an audience wants to believe is that what's going on is happening for the first time.

For me, novelty matters; uniqueness matters.

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

Usually, my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.

I have a hatred of familiarity. If I feel like I am doing something I've done before, it feels old and done. I feel I have no choice but to strike out in directions that feel new - anything less just doesn't seem worth it.

I want people to say that I'm something new, something different. Something they've never seen before.

Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, 'Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen.'

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.

I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.

The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.

I always try to incorporate something in every book that I've never used before. Hopefully, spontaneity will keep readers reading.

It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.

Thankfully, as much as Hollywood is interested in brands, I think people are still looking for originality and freshness.