Winston Duke Quotes

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

I really try to plot in a fearless fashion. I try not to care about not knowing the answer before I get there; I just jump in first and see what happens.

I love to be in projects that take risks.

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

All adventure is now reactionary.

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything.

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

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

The TED Fellowship exposed me to a set of youngsters who had wilder ideas than I did - and almost all of them were pursuing their wild and crazy ideas without fear of failure.

The best films come about through experimentation.

It's funny: as a director, there are movies you make because you're passionate about getting your vision across, and you know that you're vision is different than anybody else. In those cases, you take the plunge, and it works, or it doesn't. You make the stylistic choices based on how you feel about the material.

I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.

We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!

If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist.

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.