John Badham Quotes

Since the first 'Singham,' many films have that kind of action. So we have to work harder to create something new.

The theatrical marketplace is a challenge. What do you have to do to get someone to purchase a movie ticket to your movie? You have to do something that they've never seen before; you've got to enthrall them in a new way.

If you want people to come to theaters, you better do something different.

I never want to repeat the same thing. I always want it to be different from what I've done, and to be not quite sure whether or not I can pull it off, until I hopefully do.

I'm still doing me. I try to come up with different concept for my shows, you gotta keep the people interested, but I'm still me.

I don't consciously try to make things difficult as much as I try to make them a little different. I like all kinds of laughs. I tried to make a show that elicit groans, guffaws, chuckles, boos.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical.

I'm sure people would argue this, but I want to be different in everything I do. I don't think I've been the same in anything I've done, and I want to keep that up.

It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

I think I would rather want to create something new, but I really did enjoy doing that show. It was a really fun show to do.

Ultimately what I want to do, I want to go back and do some more action movies.

I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?

In the music industry, it's pretty easy to make an album just because you want to keep going, like, 'This is the formula.' But the formula is your life. You have to live your life and you have to live it well - that's the formula.

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way

One must not imitate what one wants to create.

I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.

You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?," or, "Why would anyone ever want to go see that?"

Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.

One of the reasons I love making movies is because it's an opportunity to share with the world a different way of being or a different way of living or seeing the world. If it's something you've already seen before, if I have too many reference points for it, then it's not exciting for me to make.

What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.

The way that I approach music has a bit of a sense of humor to it. Something slightly different that people can still relate to.