Spike Lee Quotes

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

I'm always like that about everything. When I try to do something, I always think, "What is the best way to do this?" Instead of taking what everyone else says and how it has been forever, it's faster for me to try myself. Of course I listen to what everybody says, and at first I'll try what people say, but I always come back to trying it my way.

I'm always tempted to say, 'Nah, that won't work.' But I think you should be willing to try ideas out before saying no. Be open-minded.

I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.

We can all do better. America is an entrepreneurial society. We had entrepreneurs who started our country. And they want us to think in fresh, new, different ways all of the time.

People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.

Someone, somewhere has a better idea.

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

I think I'm still trying to be experimental on everything I ever do, but it's not as obviously way-out and experimental as what we were.

My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

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

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

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

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

People love to talk about new and different. They don't always love to buy and read new and different.

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.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

… embrace new ideas with energy!