Bruce Johnston Quotes

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

I would tell filmmakers: 'Don't just be seduced by the same old, same old. There are interesting things you can explore that may get your film out there to audiences better than the traditional distribution mechanisms.'

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

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.

There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.

If we're going to have an unconventional budget, we probably need an unconventional process to get there.

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.

I'm a very outside-the-box kind of guy.

It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.

I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.

It's important to do something outside the box, and maybe that'll inspire people do also do something outside the box.

Studios might support people trying to do something a little bit different and they'd be more open to the fact that there's more than one path to the waterfall.

I think the most important thing is discovering an idea that moves you, and then letting people who are moved by that idea find each other, and work together. A lot of times people focus on the technical side-"oh, I've got to take a class on non-profit development." Too few people allow themselves to think outside the box with regard to their issue areas.

The more times and the more different things you try, the more likely it is that you will succeed.

In The 3rd Alternative, Stephen Covey urges us to chart a course beyond the suboptimal solutions to all our crises - beyond left and right, and beyond the many false choices in front of us. The 3rdAlternative is a wise and welcome echo of Einstein's warning that the problems we're facing today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

When people see success, particularly investors, they are much more willing to invest in artistic projects.

There are no rules in filmmaking

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.