Tom Green Quotes

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

I'm trying to do different music, and I'm trying to be out of the box.

I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

I like more the fact that I like to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box goes along with dressing out of the box and living out of the box.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.

I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.

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

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.

I like being unconventional.

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

The innovator, however, must in the first place be discontented, he must doubt the value of what he is doing or question the accepted ways of doing it. And secondly, he must be prepared to take fresh paths, to venture into fields where he is by no means expert. This is true, at least, of major forms of innovation; they make it possible for other men to be expert, but are not themselves forms of expertise

We've never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.

I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

Trying to show people something they haven't really seen before can get a lot of push-back.