Lillete Dubey Quotes

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

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.

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can.

If I start playing by the rules, I will inhibit myself of the possibilities that lie beyond. I don't like to be framed or given borders to operate in or curtail my thought process and as a writer it's not only my choice but also my need to go beyond the given framework.

I don't shy away from things that may be a little different, but own them and implement them in the coverage that I do.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

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

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

You've got to be picky in this business - if you're not, then I don't think you have the option of longevity. You've got to be choosy and try and do something that's outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me, gives me that adrenalin rush.

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

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 like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

I always like to get a role where I think, 'Ah, I know this is probably going to be played like this, but I'm going to do it like this.'

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

I'm trying to do different music, and I'm trying to be out of the box.