David Droga Quotes

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

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

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.

Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

It's important to be unconventional.

As far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it's tight, then the world is going to think it's tight.

You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

Creativity is about taking what is the norm and expanding it and continuing to expand it and expand it and expand it and expand it.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

There's no such thing as a cautious creative.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

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.

I admire people who are creative.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.