Don Coscarelli Quotes

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

I wouldn't want to make the same film every time. I get easily bored.

I think I'll always be making movies that intend to say something new.

I'd love to just continue making original films from scratch, but it doesn't mean I won't try my hand at something else in the meantime.

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.

The idea is to do out-of-the-box films that showcase my versatility and talent.

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'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

I think you're always trying to challenge yourself to do new things and not repeat yourself.