Peter Jackson Quotes

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

I've always tried to do things a little bit before they were being done by the mainstream. I challenge myself to do that in stand-up also, to talk about things that I'm not hearing anybody talk about onstage and in the media.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different.

If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.

I'm trying to do different music, and I'm trying to be out of the box.

I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.

I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

There's not enough people being daring and different. There are a lot of followers in hip-hop.

It's hard to find things that haven't been said before or drawn before, but I'm trying.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

I want to encourage Filipino artists to be original, write your own songs and don't be afraid to go outside the box and try new things.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.