Richard Beymer Quotes

You have to keep surprising your audience.

The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've written that predictable or boring line, and I will carry that around with me all day.

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.

From the moment you say 'action,' this is the fun part - things should happen that surprise you, excite you, scare you, turn you on, make you laugh. If things aren't surprising you, when you say 'cut,' whisper things to the actors that will make them do things that do surprise you.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

You really want to keep ringing the changes - you hope that your work and your choices make people excited about where you're going next and that that might be somewhere unexpected.

I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.

I just try to do things that make me excited. If I can find a way to surprise myself, then that's when I'm really excited to share something and really can stand behind it.

When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that convergence, something amazing will happen.

I constantly want to do something new and surprise the audience.

What's challenging is to surprise the audience.

I want to surprise people with my work every time.

I always kept the fans happy. They always saw a different Rey, whether it was a mask, a design, a color. I never gave them the same thing twice and always kept them on their feet. They were always excited to see what Rey was going to bring to the table.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

I want each season to feel new and special. I don't want it to feel, "Oh, more of this." That's something that's easy to do in the first three seasons, and harder to do as you go. I'd rather err on the side of blowing up everything and being like, "Why did you do that? There was more story to tell there," and moving the family to Mexico like on Weeds, instead of people going, "Oh, we've seen this already. We're tired of this."

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

Creativity is a continual surprise.

I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.

You can't reinvent the wheel. You've got to just take the best from all the other shows and try to make it work, because there's the "live show Gods" that dictate if there are going to be any surprises, if there's a very commercial film that's a Best Picture. There are a lot of things that are out of my control, but I do my best.