Guy Laliberte Quotes

All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can.

I like taking up challenges. I prefer working with scripts that are different and veer from the tried and tested. So far, it's always worked.

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

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

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

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

Innovation requires an experimental mindset.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

I'm old enough to know you can't close your mind to new ideas. You have to test out every possibility if you want something new.

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

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

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

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

To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

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

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.