Josh Charles Quotes

Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.

We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.

'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play.

I like taking up challenges. I prefer working with scripts that are different and veer from the tried and tested. So far, it's always worked.

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.

I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be put in a box.

I've always found ways to bend the rules.

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

I think there is something to be said for what you can do when you don't know what you aren't supposed to be able to do.

I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.

I always want people to expect the unexpected, to hear me in records that have nothing to do with bachata. 'Golden' is the golden opportunity for them to appreciate me on other records.

I don't want to just make the safe, easy commercial films.

If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.

Switching genres actually motivates me.

I didn't come up as a DJ, so I don't play by DJ rules.

If I start playing by the rules, I will inhibit myself of the possibilities that lie beyond. I don't like to be framed or given borders to operate in or curtail my thought process and as a writer it's not only my choice but also my need to go beyond the given framework.