Burt Reynolds Quotes

If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

I never imagined myself doing a one-man show. If I'm going to do one, I'd rather do one that breaks all the rules.

Better to be wrong than be boring.

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.

A lot of producers and creative types want to see you be you. Throw something else out there and show them where you would take this part. A lot of them are launching shows for the first time, so they've got a lot riding on this, too, and they want you to be their flight.

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience.

I want to make videos that, if I didn't know myself, I'd want to watch. As long as I'm making myself laugh, I'm usually having a good time. That's how I know I've made a video that I'm proud of: I've made myself laugh.

Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

My goal is always to make something unpredictable that feels inevitable in the end. It's getting harder to do that. Audiences are so sophisticated and so smart.

I never want to bore the public.

I think 'Billy on the Street' is a big show, but why do a show if you won't make it original and unique and powerful?

Embrace risk. The driving force behind our economic model at Illumination Mac Guff is designed to preserve the opportunity to take risk. Subvert the expectation of the audience. Surprise them with unexpected choices.

I don't approach my movies with a target audience in mind. I try to make something that's true to the subject matter as much as possible, while still being entertaining and fun.

If it is just another run-of-the-mill show, then what is the point?

I hate being typecast and I don't want to do things that are boring for me because it would be boring for the viewers as well.

The Hardys were a huge influence on me becoming a wrestler. Not so much the moves themselves, but the concepts behind the moves: trying to be innovative and just being exciting.

I always look for projects that are risky and ones that want to do something unique. If audiences don't like it, you feel good knowing that you were brave enough to do something original. If they do like it, you feel like everyone is rewarded, because we all got to see something new.

I constantly want to do something new and surprise the audience.

NXT is unpredictable, and they are not afraid to tell a lot of different stories and compelling stories.

I learned with 'The Disaster Artist,' when I was writing the book, the audience will follow you if you really try to do something different. The biggest thing is, you want to be genuine and try to surprise your audience with kind of a new direction.

Being on Netflix lets us be experimental. We can do crazy things.