Doug TenNapel Quotes

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

I see myself more like a novelist or a polygamist than a musician in terms of my output.

The Roots want to dip our toes into everything in the arts.

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 don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different.

You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things.

If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.

One of the reasons I never had a problem handing over my characters to other creators is that I knew that they would add their own influences and takes on the characters and make them better for it.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

I've never done a sequel - so far, there have been too many new stories and characters calling my name.

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.

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

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.

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.

Musicians are always eclectic. Musicians are always curious and hungry for new things.

I think every actor wants to try out different things.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.