Thomas Newman Quotes

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

I do like not knowing where I'm going, wandering in strange woods, whistling and following bread crumbs.

Something that's very important is to preserve the sense of surprise, the sense of discovery. The eye of the person you are talking to, your shadow on the ground. It's important not to get suffocated by all the things in life and lose that sense of surprise.

I want to be surprised by life... I think that's more interesting.

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored

One wants to be surprised.

I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

Life's supposed to be an adventure, a surprise!

I wasn't ready for fame and all that brings to your life. It was an amazing experience, but so overwhelming, because no one can tell you beforehand when it will happen or how it will impact you. So no one can tell you how to handle it, being stopped everywhere you go because people saw you on 'Oprah.' It took me over, and I wasn't ready.

I never rule anything in or out; life can surprise you.

I like going into places that you never know what you're going to find because you can go in with no ideas and leave with thousands.

It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.

I like going to a new environment with open eyes.

I think it is OK to surprise people.