John Gourley Quotes

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

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

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

Creativity is about taking what is the norm and expanding it and continuing to expand it and expand it and expand it and expand it.

If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

The innovator, however, must in the first place be discontented, he must doubt the value of what he is doing or question the accepted ways of doing it. And secondly, he must be prepared to take fresh paths, to venture into fields where he is by no means expert. This is true, at least, of major forms of innovation; they make it possible for other men to be expert, but are not themselves forms of expertise

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

I don't want to come in and do something that's been done before. You know, for me, it's not that I wouldn't come in and do a sequel to something, but it's only if I can bring something new to the table and I'm not following an extremely strict path.

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different.

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

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

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

I've been lucky between 'Buffy,' 'Angel,' 'Alias,' and then 'Lost.' The thing they all have in common is that they were all fearless. They were not afraid to be different and try something different. Even if you didn't know that it was going to work, just try to do something new and fresh.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.