Marc Forster Quotes

Every time I do a project, it always comes with a level of discomfort and not knowing how to do it.

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 try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.

You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness.

With innovation, there is always risk.

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

No failure means no risk, which means nothing new

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead. You don't know what new dangers and challenges you'll find. It takes an enormous amount of internal security to begin with the spirit of adventure, discovery, and creativity. Without doubt, you have to leave the comfort zone of base camp and confront an entirely new and unknown wilderness.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

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.

To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.

I like pushing boundaries.

I love when me and my friends don't know how to make something - there's that risk of failure, which should be there. If it's guaranteed not to fail, it's something you already know how to do.

If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

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.

Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.

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.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

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

If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.

You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.