Jack Nicholson Quotes

As an actor, I have tried to do new things, and that's why I have done few films.

I think, for me as an actor, if you get to a place where you're satisfied, you're happy with it, then you're dead. It's over. You're not hungry anymore. You won't try things anymore.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

I want to change and try new ideas - allowing your sonic identity to evolve in your music and not being afraid of that. You see musicians hit upon something that works, and then go, "Let's keep doing that for 10 years." And that idea kind of terrifies me a little bit. It becomes like a day job then.

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.

I get letters from people saying one of the things they like best about what I've done since 'Bewitched' is that they never know what I'm going to do next.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.

I'm all for trying anything once; otherwise, you end up like David Guetta - reproducing the same formula over and over.

I try new techniques and styles almost every day, so I'm always challenging myself.

One thing that feels very important to me as an artist is to continually challenge myself and push myself to do all kinds of different things.

I like artists that tend to be more interested in reinventing themselves, in experimenting.

Most filmmakers give me the reference of my own songs; doing the same thing over and over again doesn't push you to do better.

For me, as an artist, I think you have to experiment.

Be it in the movies I make or on stage, I think it's a trap to keep doing the same thing over and over again.

I look forward to pushing the boundaries of my craft and taking new chances.

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things.