Conrad Hall Quotes

It's good to give people a jolt. If they're expecting one thing, it's important to give them something else. If you do something startling, audiences might at first freak out, but then they start to think, 'This is not going to be conventional. I'm going to enjoy this.'

I'd like to change what people expect. I want to evoke something that's not nameable, for people to go, 'Huh?'

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

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.

Any time people are breaking outside the norm and playing something that isn't expected - that feels like punk to me.

Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I'm going to go straight.

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.

I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

I want good and different parts, different from what I've done.

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.

I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected.

It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.

I feel the best way to respect my audience is to not give them what they expect from me... 'cause it's fun that way.

I made a promise to myself that I would try to introduce something unexpected in every single episode of the series. It was largely to amuse myself as much as anything. I didn't ever want the audience to feel that they knew everything.

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

It's good to be unexpected with it.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.