Orson Welles Quotes

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.

I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'

I love finding and doing new things and trying stuff out; that's my favorite thing to do.

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

All progress is experimental.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

I like to try new things.