David Belle Quotes

My style evolves day by day; I love change.

I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to work." But in the end, it's a possibility.

I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song."

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

I think the more realistic you try to make the graphics and the experience, the more you limit yourself to a single vision.

You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

If people stop liking my clothes, I'll make a record.

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like.

I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.

I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff. And I think, even today, that's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.

I don't want to limit myself as a writer. Tastes change, and I want to keep my eye on the future.

It's so important to work with material you can really mold and milk and create and evolve.

I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'

It always helps to have someone who can say, No, we can do it faster this way, or We have to break the rules, even our own rules, to get things done.

With each job that you're given an opportunity to do, you're asked to use new parts of yourself and to figure the play out with other tools that you perhaps didn't use with the last show.

I think what's important, as an artist who wants to be multi-dimensional, is learning how to shape-shift into those different paths fluidly and frequently.