Anna Wintour Quotes

There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.

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

When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

I feel it would be a huge mistake for 'Vogue' always to be completely tasteful, completely perfect. I think it's very important for us to also rock the boat.

With Gaga - she's not afraid to take chances. You get these dynamic projects because of it. She's completely unafraid.

Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

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.

I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.