Unconventional Projects Quotes

It's challenging and interesting for me to work on projects that are unique and unconventional. I'm so bored with seeing the same recycled material.

[Successful] projects that entrepreneurs initiated and carried through had one essential quality. All had been thoroughly contemplated by the regnant experts and dominant companies, with their large research staffs and financial resources, and had been judged too difficult, untimely, risky, expensive and unprofitable.

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

People are always trying to figure me out, given the varied nature of my films and shows.

I don't take Mars One seriously at all.

I'm never going to be in something as commercially successful as 'Harry Potter' ever again. It's impossible. So that gives me incredible freedom to go off and make the slightly off-the-wall films that I want to make.

I found it was way more fun to build useless stuff.

A lot of times, you do independent films for passion because you may even lose money doing one, but it doesn't matter.

Studios might support people trying to do something a little bit different and they'd be more open to the fact that there's more than one path to the waterfall.

My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.

Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.

That's what I want to continue to do: really odd films, with interesting filmmakers.

I've got my own TV stuff on the go, and it's all a bit oddball - it's one-offs, and I can do what, when, and how I want it, really. I don't have any scripts or people telling me to do stuff twice.

Collider is a company that I formed with a movie producer, Alisa Tager, and we just wanted to create a place where writers could come and develop their ideas without a regard to limitations of form.

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.

I like confounding expectations. I can expand what it is I am able to do, and hopefully get to do more weird, interesting projects like this. There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone. And how the audience perceives that... It's out of my hands. And I don't get that frustrated by it, because I'm on to the next thing at that point.

When studios start telling me why a particular film project won't work, I remember 'Rocky.' I remember that the biggest success Bob Chartoff and I have had was a film nobody wanted to make.

You're not supposed to do a television series that takes place in nine cities all over the globe. Everyone will tell you that that's undoable.

I have always tried to make life interesting for myself by doing different roles that connect mainstream cinema with its offbeat counterpart.

I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.

I'd rather do spontaneous and silly work like ThunderAnt than have somebody's film on my shoulders.

I don't have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I've done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that's mostly what I'm offered.