Nick Kroll Quotes

For me, the goal wasn't to turn the stand-up special on its head, but to do what I do specifically, and hopefully that reads as something new.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

I always wanted to do something different with each film. So I guess that means that I wanted to not repeat myself. There has to be some kind of a new element in each project that I take up.

I really don't want to make the same film twice, so I am conscious of going after material that is significantly different to anything I've done before.

I don't want to come in and do something that's been done before. You know, for me, it's not that I wouldn't come in and do a sequel to something, but it's only if I can bring something new to the table and I'm not following an extremely strict path.

It's hard to find things that haven't been said before or drawn before, but I'm trying.

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one What counts is whether the novelty he or she produces is accepted for inclusion in the domain.

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies.

I think it's important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have done the same act, word for word for word, for 20 years. I have a problem with that. I think the audience should see something new in each show.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

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

I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!

'Bloodshot,' for me, was unlike anything I'd ever done before, which was really the draw of it. In addition to trying to reconnect with my earlier work, I also wanted to try to do something that was completely new and different.

I love to work with artists that were able to find a brand new name and create something really exciting and fresh.

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

I do what I love, thank God. I get to make music and get inspiration through Judaism. I can see why people might be surprised, because it's not been done before. It's certainly not typical. People are always trying to wrap head their around it. But it's probably simpler than everyone thinks.

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.