Ian Williams Quotes

I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

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.

It's always been my intention to never be boxed in. I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

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.

If you want to be different, do something different.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

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

Always do something different from the others.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.

I love doing things that people don't expect.

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.

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

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

We have no precedents to guide us, and that is a glorious thing, for precedents, like other guides are disposed to grow tyrannical and refuse to let us do anything on our own initiative. Life grows wearisome in the countries where precedents and conventionality is rule and nothing can happen unless it has happen before.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

Every part that I do has to be different from the last part that I did so I don't become a stereotype.