James Florio Quotes

If you don't have problems, you don't have opportunities.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward

I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.

My general idea about my work is that it's more about the work than the things that come with it. I am constantly striving to improve on that and find new things to do there. That journey itself is so interesting is because there's so much to do that there's no room for doubt there.

You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also what might later on be a mistake.

Competition makes us all better and better.

You can't stand still in one spot, no matter how good it is. You have to do something new, keep trying. That's everything.

Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.

(I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.