Marc Randolph Quotes

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

Everything is an experiment.

Nobody knows what they're doing, so don't be afraid to try things.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

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

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.

If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

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.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.