Lena Waithe Quotes

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.

I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with one thing. We didn't want to be scared to do anything that we wanted to do. We didn't want anything to hold us back. We wanted no boundaries.

I don't want to limit myself to any genre or language or a type. I want to always surprise the audience and, hence, keep raising the bar for myself.

If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

I like pushing boundaries.

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

I like people who push the envelope.

I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

Definition is the death of discovery.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.