Preston Sturges Quotes

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.

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

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

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.

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

I'm always trying to do weird things - when you have that part of your mission statement as an actor, half of that stuff that ends up being made is probably garbage.

I remember on my very first film, which Steven Soderberg executive-produced, he said, 'Try not to repeat yourself. Do things that scare you.' Even if it's a challenge, I want people to say that this guy tried this thing. Hopefully he learned from it.

Sometimes you have to take the risk that somebody will consider what you're making is noise, but if you don't try it, then nothing will move forward. I'd rather people hate something than just go 'meh.'

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

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

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.'

You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

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

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 think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

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

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

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.

I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.

Pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable - to me, that's something I'm definitely interested in and want to pursue.

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.