Anna Wintour Quotes

If designers are willing to take risks, I think buyers should take risks, as well with press taking risks.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

I guess I still have this motto: 'What else can I get away with?' And unpredictability in film - that's the hardest thing there is.

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

I think a lot of people are too safe in the makeup industry.

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

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

What's missing from pop music is danger.

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

Originality is dangerous.

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

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

I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.