Oscar Wilde Quotes

We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.

There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

If you're afraid of failure or getting it wrong, you'll never truly innovate or disrupt the market.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Bergman was courageous in choosing people to do things that they themselves might not expect to play.

You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

I'm somebody who explores extraordinary possibilities, not ordinary ones.

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

I like audacious ideas.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

If you're going to be wrong, be dramatically wrong.

I live to feel myself in danger.

It is so important for designers not to run scared, and not to be too worried about what's safe and what's commercial.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

I feel it would be a huge mistake for 'Vogue' always to be completely tasteful, completely perfect. I think it's very important for us to also rock the boat.