Jonathan Krisel Quotes

Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

The core hacker premise that 'code wins arguments' is just another way of saying that anything is worth trying, regardless of whether it is a conservative or liberal idea, and that whatever works is worth keeping.

I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.

At 'Vogue,' I was responsible for a lot of production work, and production work is highly detailed, and you have to be very resourceful to fit a square peg into a round hole. I learned to push the envelope when it comes to asking questions or making requests.

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

I was always taught to let the obstacles be your guide because they lead you to places that you wouldn't have gone on your own. Instead of going through a rock, you go around it, creating a path.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.