Arjun Rampal Quotes

Theater is about surprises and things that you haven't seen before on stage.

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

I constantly want to do something new and surprise the audience.

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.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

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

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

It's a great privilege to make a film, to have it shown, and for people to see it.

A magic show and a concert are very similar in the way I like keeping things a mystery and not doing them the same way every time. The listener and the audience never know what's going to happen next.

I have a lot of maneuvers in my back pocket, so to speak. And to me, the thing is to always surprise the audience so they're always seeing something new, and not just get stuck in the same rut.

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 director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work, both as an artist and as a filmmaker.

When Wes has a new a project, you know that it's going to be something as different as the previous was from the previous one. Each time, he tries to take you to a country, or a land that is unknown for you and for him, and reinvent this land. That's what he did with 'Darjeeling,' with 'Mr. Fox,' with 'Moonrise Kingdom.'

I always kept the fans happy. They always saw a different Rey, whether it was a mask, a design, a color. I never gave them the same thing twice and always kept them on their feet. They were always excited to see what Rey was going to bring to the table.

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

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.

It's really hard to find stuff that is original. You pick up scripts and in four pages you know where it's going and the same thing when you are sitting in a theatre, I just rejoice when something unfolds in a way that I'm not conducive.

I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

I think it's important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have done the same act, word for word for word, for 20 years. I have a problem with that. I think the audience should see something new in each show.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.