Kevin McCollum Quotes

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

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.'

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

I'm into creating something that I've never created before.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.

If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

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.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

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.

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

I didn't want to make a game unless I felt in the position to make something new and different.

I always make sure that every film of mine has some element of freshness to it.