Quotes About Innovation

In terms of the music, it feels almost like trouble's a good thing - you never know when a song is going to surprise you. We look for these subversive moments in songs.

I always try that my next film is different than my last movie. I would like to surprise my audience; that, I think, is the job of an actor.

The rule has been that when one opens a new channel to the universe, there is usually a surprise in it. Why should the gravitational channel be deprived of this?

I like to surprise myself. I like to surprise my fans, too.

I don't want to limit myself to any genre or language or a type. I want to always surprise the audience and, hence, keep raising the bar for myself.

I learned with 'The Disaster Artist,' when I was writing the book, the audience will follow you if you really try to do something different. The biggest thing is, you want to be genuine and try to surprise your audience with kind of a new direction.

I just surprise myself every day.

What's challenging is to surprise the audience.

I want to keep looking for roles that have an element of surprise.

I want to surprise people with my work every time.

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.

What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing, and there is the chance nature has prepared yet another surprise for us.

I don't want to put myself in any bracket. I will do whatever makes me jump out of my bed. I want to surprise myself and the audience.

I think that games like 'Braid' show us that the 'new kids on the block' can do some really inventive, smart things with a genre like the side-scrolling platformer that has been around for 25 years. It's proof that people can 'come up' and surprise us all the time.

Since we began Daft Punk we go from surprise to surprise.

I understand, as an artist as well as a producer, the need for there to be mystery and surprise.

The revolution in deep nets has been very profound. It definitely surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.

You'd be surprised. Drummers ape each other. The way every rock n' roll record sounds like something else but not all together. Everything other drummers play, if you're playing drums, they all hear.

People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.

I was just so surprised at the impeccable images I had in my head that I just had to express them in some sort of physical matter.

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.

There's definitely a list of things I'd like to do. But there's been a lot of things I hadn't even thought would have been possible to do that I'd been able to do, so I think I'll surprise myself and keep breaking that glass ceiling to see what's next. Hopefully people get surprised - that's my main goal.

It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the highest scientific distinction that there is today has been awarded for those on catalysis.