Anouska Hempel Quotes

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.

You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better.

Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really.

I don't really know what I'm doing, to be honest. I come up with things, and maybe it works, and maybe it doesn't, and I try to learn from my castmates and director and from everyone.

Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.

Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.

The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.

Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

Design is nothing if not decision making.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

The first scene I ever shot for 'Louie Bluie,' on that first day, I had never seen the camera before. I didn't know where to put it. I just knew what was strong about these guys and what I wanted to capture, so I tried to work backward from there and figure it out. Trial and error. Hopefully I got a little bit better at it.

I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.