Douglas Wood Quotes

When we first started to write our first movie, 'You Are Going To Prison,' we wanted it to be crazy and unique, brand new, our voice, not like anything that'd ever been before. It took us about a year to write our first script.

Story is about originality, not duplication

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

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

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

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

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

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

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

Taking nuances from real life will help you make scenes that have never been done before. It keeps the story interesting.

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.

The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've written that predictable or boring line, and I will carry that around with me all day.

I have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and not the same story over and over.

An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.

The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.

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

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

I've never done a sequel - so far, there have been too many new stories and characters calling my name.

My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

Originality is really important.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.