Elias Canetti Quotes

Nobody's interested in something that could've been done before.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

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

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

It's a new game now, you know, you have to bring some fresh stuff.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

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.

You always have to find some new ways. Old ways are too known.

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

Progress only happens with change, and people love something different.

Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing.

You got to be able to reinvent yourself and come up with new ideas because everybody is going to try to copy, which is what you want. You want people to start saying what you say.

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.

I want each season to feel new and special. I don't want it to feel, "Oh, more of this." That's something that's easy to do in the first three seasons, and harder to do as you go. I'd rather err on the side of blowing up everything and being like, "Why did you do that? There was more story to tell there," and moving the family to Mexico like on Weeds, instead of people going, "Oh, we've seen this already. We're tired of this."

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.

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.

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.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.