Jay Roach Quotes

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

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

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

I don't want to be trending. Instead of pursuing ideas of being more radio-friendly and... commercial, I want to go harder at being more creative.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

We're just gonna keep making things and challenging ourselves to make them more cheaply and more renegade and more interesting. That's the only thing we might challenge ourselves to do in the age of so many movies and so many TV shows. We're aware that we're asking time of people to watch stuff, and that there's so much stuff to watch, so we're gonna try to offer you something unique. And it may not always succeed, but it will definitely be different.

You don't want it to be a replica or an imitation. You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

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

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.