Ian Schrager Quotes

I am always looking for options that yield something unexpected.

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.

I don't think one should be a slave to one medium.

I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I really don't look at myself as just one thing. I'm kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.

I've worked with a lot of first time directors; in fact, I enjoy it because there is a certain beginner's mind that they bring into a project that isn't loaded with the way things have been done before. There's a certain freedom to it.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

Even if I play a similar role to one I've played before, I will never play it the same, I'll always try to do something different with it.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

You gotta be able to change worlds.