Vic Fuentes Quotes

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

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

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

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

Originality is dangerous.

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 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.

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 we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

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.

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.'

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.