Chris Meledandri Quotes

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

The best films come about through experimentation.

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

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

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.

I'm into creating something that I've never created before.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?'

There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.

Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas - ideas they know will work and have worked in the past.

Theatre is a playground. It really is, and we should use that playground more.

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new.