Alex North Quotes

When creating 'Cowboy Bebop,' I thought it would be more interesting if I added different types of elements together to create something that was completely new.

One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.

I take the best of all the styles I like and put them together in one package.

I like things that don't go together.

My sensibilities are like, 'I want it to be weirder.'

I'm always looking at how I can be atypical.

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

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

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

If it's genuinely new, when people are hearing it, they're not really gonna be comfortable because they haven't heard it a thousand times before.

What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways.

I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am.

For me, novelty matters; uniqueness matters.

I don't like the idea of seeing a movie and it feels comfortable because you've heard it before.

The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

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

I wanted to make something very unique, something very different.

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

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

Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.

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