Wes Craven Quotes

For me, novelty matters; uniqueness matters.

One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one's work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be.

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

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.

The most successful people are so original.

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.

Well, you know, I feel like it's about a lot of things. The reason that I made it was because I thought it was really funny and unique and just a different genre.

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in.

What I have done here no one has done before.

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

I want to go out there and do some different things that people are like, "Wow. That's crazy. Why didn't I think of that?"

If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too late

I think what a lot of people see as unique is using different technology or different techniques [to make games], but I feel like, as long as you have a core that's unlike others, that's what 'unique' is.

Story is about originality, not duplication

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

I'm sure people would argue this, but I want to be different in everything I do. I don't think I've been the same in anything I've done, and I want to keep that up.

I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

Everyone's going to like something that's different.

The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

You have to think of a new way to completely surprise people who think they're hip. I always said you could make an NC-17 movie with no sex and no violence. Now I don't know what that could possibly be, but if you could think it up, you'd have a hit.

All great and precious things are lonely.

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.