Jess Walter Quotes

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

I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.

Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

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.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

I think you're always trying to challenge yourself to do new things and not repeat yourself.

I like to take on the thing I don't like at the moment. I like to find something that looks wrong or feels off, something that I would never have done in the past, like brocade. And then all of a sudden, if we can make brocade work, then we've really done something, because I hate it. And that's just a reference. I don't actually hate brocade.

I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.

You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone.

There is an inherent creative restlessness at Laika where we always want to challenge ourselves.

I think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff.

I am always looking for projects that make me step out of my comfort zone and do something different.

Sometimes it takes a long time for a picture to incubate. And every time I do that, the rewards are so much bigger than what I would have gotten if I had only done the same as I always do. So each time I make an effort and I get out of a lazy routine, it's amazing how big the reward can be. It's listening to those little ideas knocking on the door in your mind.

It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing, I don't know if it's any good, I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. Not just a creative fantasy world or something like that, but a mood too.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

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

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.