Dante Basco Quotes

It's 2009, things change. I'm a creature of habit, so in the beginning I wanted it to be as much like the original as possible, but that's not reality. And reality is, this is a new generation, and people want to see 'Witch Mountain' again.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?

We live in a changing world … shall we maintain all our theaters in the same traditional box.

If you're going to reboot something, reboot it in a totally original way that speaks to a new generation.

To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

We will continue to renew and redefine Sony Pictures.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

To endeavor to rehabilitate the sabbath of our forefathers is as foolish as to try to make people go back into log houses and cook in a fire-place. Some persons can never realize that the world grows; that what was a help to one age becomes a hindrance to another; that time corrects the mistakes of men and that respect and reverence for our ancestors does not necessarily require us to adopt their clothes or their habits.

When it comes to the moves themselves, after I created a style, a lot of guys started doing the same moves I was. I had to switch up my whole offense. Then, when it happened again, I had to switch it up again. It was a hard thing to do, but it helps me grow and helps me not become stale.

I think the game's evolving - it always is. You don't want to be a dinosaur. You want to evolve with it.

But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.

To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

Change is good; it's what fashion is all about.