Dan Rosensweig Quotes

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

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

What I want to do is try to raise the level of SCI-Arc's original mission, which was to be forward-thinking. And let's face it, if you're forward-thinking and you're dealing in concepts of new ideas, history has told us that new ideas are not always wanted by everyone.

If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.

I feel it would be a huge mistake for 'Vogue' always to be completely tasteful, completely perfect. I think it's very important for us to also rock the boat.

We're offered bigger, larger budget movies to produce a lot, and we don't do them. That's not to say there aren't exceptions: there are a few exceptions, but I try and stick by the rules that produce what I think is the highest quality, most innovative work and try and let the rules go that make us feel like we're retreading.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

Life is short. Don't do the same thing everyone else is doing - that's such a herd mentality. And don't do something that's two percent better than the other person. Do something that changes the world.

I don't like to follow in the footsteps. I like to learn from the footsteps that came before me, forge a new path.

You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.

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

I dream of doing something where people are like: 'That's different, but it's still something I can relate to,' because that's the way of moving forward.

I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

Apple is always focused on out-innovating itself... and that is something I am very proud to be a part of.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.

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.

Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.

My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.