Atticus Shaffer Quotes

I think if you want to be groundbreaking, you have to do something that's never been done.

I'm a very outside-the-box kind of guy.

I want to do something that people have not seen before... surprise everyone. There has to be variety in work.

I just want to continue to do polar opposite type of work. I just want to continue to do things that are unexpected and dynamic, with good stories behind them.

My sound is inventive.

The most successful people are so original.

Different is better. I get more jobs being different.

If somebody is young and brilliant and imaginative, he will be listened to, even if he is a little unorthodox.

I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.

I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

'Shadow Souls' pushes probably every border that you can.

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

The one thing I try and do, when people say, 'What kind of movies do you guys look for,' the one thing I look for is 'different.' And I think that's very antithetical to Hollywood.

I am not like any other singer in America - I am a new creation.

We're trying to do something nobody else is doing right now.

I just love his creativity; that's what I'm talking about as far as being unique and creative and different. Kanye is doing it.

Believe me, what I have done in 'Company' has never been attempted before.

I used to like Lady Gaga. I still love her. But what I like about LMFAO is that they're completely outside of the box; they're completely different. They're not ridiculous, but they are not afraid of it. And also, it's a certain type of artistry.

I want people to say that I'm something new, something different. Something they've never seen before.

James Cameron has always been great about changing the rules.

I've always been blown away by how unique Brian Limond's mind is.

'Last Man' is different from anything I've ever seen or done.

A true artist is always out of his time.