Taapsee Pannu Quotes

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

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

The key is to constantly keep the audience surprised. If they feel like something is going to happen, or they think from an educational standpoint that something is about to happen because of all the moving parts, it is your job to break that expectation and show the audience something different.

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

As a creator, I always want to betray fans' expectations.

People root for me in such a way that when they come to a show, the experience of not knowing what's about to happen is a great thing.

I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has.

Breaking expectations, even as an audience member, is something that I have enjoyed.

I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.

I've always found ways to bend the rules.

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a lecture in a high squeaky voice from inhaling helium. It is written nowhere in the math of probability theory that one may have no fun.

When I brought 'Sex and the City' to HBO, I wanted to do something independent, where I could be like, 'I don't care if anybody watches this thing. Just let me do something that I would love to see.' Honestly, the success of 'Sex and the City' was what was most surprising to me. It was sort of like the anti-TV-show in my mind.

Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.

Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Kevin's mind goes to extremely interesting places. Every time we get a script, I go, 'Oh my God, I really didn't see that coming'.

It's a little counterintuitive to people, that doing what people don't expect ends up being what people do expect. But that is true of Mac.

It's funny when you follow your own sort of bliss, then other people tend to respond in kind, meaning audiences. It's really weird how that works, but it does seem to apply to 'Nancy & Beth' especially.

I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.

I never imagined that Hamilton would be turned into a musical, much less a hip-hop musical. I think I can safely say that that's the last thing I would have expected.

Embrace risk. The driving force behind our economic model at Illumination Mac Guff is designed to preserve the opportunity to take risk. Subvert the expectation of the audience. Surprise them with unexpected choices.

You have to be aware of what the audience's expectations are, and then you have to pervert them, basically, and hit them upside the head from a direction they weren't looking.

What's great about the way 'Shame''s been received is that I kept on thinking there's no way this film will be received well since I've had such a good time.