C. S. Lewis Quotes

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 always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

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!

I always naturally want to change things up if I possibly can. I never want to write a sequel to a book. I don't want to go back over things. I don't want to adapt my own books for the screen. That's something that's important to me, the keeping it fresh.

I have a hatred of familiarity. If I feel like I am doing something I've done before, it feels old and done. I feel I have no choice but to strike out in directions that feel new - anything less just doesn't seem worth it.

Dynamic change is always my favorite thing. As soon as I feel like I'm doing all of the same stuff over and over again, I'm bored and sad.

I wouldn't want to make the same film every time. I get easily bored.

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.

I want to do something that people have not seen before... surprise everyone. There has to be variety in work.

It's always more interesting to do new things.

We like to try doing new things in the shows and doing things that we haven't done before.

I like to keep changing because discovery is always interesting.

I chose Rio Ave because I had something in my head about wanting to do it differently to how I had done it in my past. Something new.

I will always do something new.

I certainly like to swing the pendulum and try new things and to do things that are different from the last thing that I did.

I've always said prayers.

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

I never do the same thing twice.

What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

Making you a pioneer only means one thing. You were around at the time.