Harold Prince Quotes

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

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

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

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

The world of entertainment is, like the world of fashion, becoming increasingly populated by those who don't want to do things the same old boring way.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

One of the things I've learned that has made me very successful, I think, as a scientist in general, sometimes you just have to take a chance.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.

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

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

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I always do something that I've never done before.

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

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

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

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

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