William Faulkner Quotes

I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.

With innovation, there is always risk.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

I tell a lot of young performers, 'Go get in trouble. Go commit yourself to something you're not sure you can do.' And I followed my own advice.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

I love finding and doing new things and trying stuff out; that's my favorite thing to do.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time.

I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it's a really big swing that I don't know if I'm going to connect on.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing.

If you're working on ideas, and you don't know what they are, keep working on them. You don't know what they'll be.