Thomas Middleditch Quotes

I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

Creative risks will always outweigh technical mistakes.

I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

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 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.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

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

I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

We live in a world where art is always looked upon as the perfect medium. We live in a society where we can alter our body parts, we can act in the most perfect or right way. A lot of that is dangerous because, especially in the world of art, the chief enemy of creativity is being safe. If you're safe, you can't fall and hurt yourself. The older you are, the further down the crash is going to be. But if it works out, the higher the high.

All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do.