John Cho Quotes

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

Since when was genius found respectable?

All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can.

I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!

I always like to get a role where I think, 'Ah, I know this is probably going to be played like this, but I'm going to do it like this.'

I have always been a person who does things differently.

I feel that one thing that a businessman can learn is do not follow a path that has already been successful. You will never be a path-breaker then.

If your idea is truly innovative, you're going to hear from the naysayers. After all, if it really were such a good idea, someone would have already done it, right?

'Deadpool' is massively successful because they made a very unique movie. That uniqueness and originality, try to imitate that. Not, 'How about let's try to do 'Deadpool' on a train.'

We try to keep audiences coming back in greater numbers by doing the unexpected and not simply following a pattern or a mold or a formula.

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.