Morten Tyldum Quotes

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.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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.

My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

I have always been a person who does things differently.

You can't put me in a box, because then it's just like, you're not gonna get anything.

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.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.

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

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

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.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use the same drums as people.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

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

I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.