Rem Koolhaas Quotes

The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.

I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.

I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.

If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.

I love challenging the status quo.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.

I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.

If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.

Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal.

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

The goal with 'Alpha' was to run towards the cliches and then to break through them, and that doesn't change depending on the medium.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

The young business and professional men of this country must get together round the table, adopt methods that have proved sound in the past, adapt them to the changing needs of the times and, whenever possible, improve them.

I think there is something to be said for what you can do when you don't know what you aren't supposed to be able to do.

I had opportunities to stay on shows for long periods of time, and maybe financially that would have been good, but I feel good about trying to keep doing things that are a little bit different than what I've done.

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.

Every job I've done so far, every character has been completely different, and that's really important to me because I don't want to fall into a stereotypical box. Of course, every actor has their box, and you have to respect and play for it, but I do love challenging myself.