Marcel Wanders Quotes

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.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

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.

If anyone thinks they have set a formula for success, that's not true. Because if that were to happen then people would only be copying that formula and every following film would be a copy alone.

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that's where the stimuli and influence comes from.

I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different.

I try not to do anything by formula.

We've all forgotten how to be original.

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 like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

The innovator, however, must in the first place be discontented, he must doubt the value of what he is doing or question the accepted ways of doing it. And secondly, he must be prepared to take fresh paths, to venture into fields where he is by no means expert. This is true, at least, of major forms of innovation; they make it possible for other men to be expert, but are not themselves forms of expertise

Culture is the silent killer of innovation.

The essence of scientific genius is to question what the rest of us take for granted.

It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.

Of course you can't do anything completely original.

I like to find areas where design has not yet gone.

I am always searching for something different or something fresh, something hasn't been done. But the truth is, at the end of the day, we're all sort of retelling something. We're doing a version of something that's already been done.

When I take from my influences, it's rare that I do it literally.

Sometimes a crazy idea can make something special.

If you want to come up with a really original design idea, and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.

I just love his creativity; that's what I'm talking about as far as being unique and creative and different. Kanye is doing it.

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