Laura Wade Quotes

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

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

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.

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

The thing I'm most proud of about - not all of our movies, but a lot of our movies - is that you might love 'em, you might hate 'em, but most of the time, they're trying to be different or trying new things, which I think is really important.

It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.

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.

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.

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.

I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.

We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

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

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