Exploring New Territory Quotes

I always like doing things that no one's ever done before. Doing things a little out of the ordinary.

If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

It's never been done doesn't mean it can't be done.

These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information.

It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.

This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.

I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.

You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try.

It's really exciting to be a part of something new that's pushing boundaries.

I know some people really try to avoid music when they're writing and recording, but I am very inspired by so many different musicians, and I need to learn. I sit around and try to play along to certain songs that I really love. It helps you explore new territory. I don't think I listen to enough.

A writer should always feel like he's in over his head

Most of what I want to try to do is continue to go places with fiction that I've never gone before, and tell stories I've never told before, and one of the problems you rapidly discover about fans is what fans want is the last thing they liked. They want more of that.

Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.

Hopefully, I write what I don't know.

For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.

The biggest adventure is to move into an area in which you are not an expert. Sometimes I joke that I am not interested in doing re-search, only search.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

Sometimes you've got to go to the wrong place just to show that you're not afraid to go there.

Just 'cause somethin' ain't been done Don't mean it can't be did.

I suppose the underlying current for me is the idea of not doing something I've done before. I call myself a character actor and I'm always trying to stay a character actor.

I have always thought that while it's wonderful to be the first to do something, you don't want to be the last.

As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a mistake.

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.