Jim Root Quotes

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

You don't want to try to recreate something you've already done.

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

Hollywood looks backwards and tries to repeat. And we really try not to do that. We don't always succeed, but I really think that what we try and do is different.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

Why do something that's already been done?

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

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!

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.

You can't reinvent the wheel. I remember when we first started out at 'Late Night,' we were trying to hire directors, and this guy was like, 'I see you behind a glass desk.' I don't. And he's like, 'Yeah, the glass desk.' I go, 'I don't really see me as a glass desk guy.'

Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

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

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

If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.

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!

It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.

The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.

Life is short. Don't do the same thing everyone else is doing - that's such a herd mentality. And don't do something that's two percent better than the other person. Do something that changes the world.

I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within a framework where those things are, to some degree, taken out of your hands.

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.