Boots Riley Quotes

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

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

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

I strive to create new opportunities in terms of partnerships and new works being presented and things you haven't seen anywhere else. Also to help you see old things in ways you haven't seen them before.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

Every time I start a new work, I try to be different and to start with a new perspective, so I search for a new idea, something which gives me a new way to access my creativity.

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.

There are people who are originals and the stuff they make really is new. It isn't based on anything else. But I've decided I'm not that-I was never that. My abilities are to synthesize a wide range of references and ideas into something that feels relatively unified and coherent.

Creativity allows people to be effective.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

Among tech-minded kids, I think Alan Turing was a tremendous inspiration. He was a guy that was so different than the people around him. He was an outsider in his own time, but because he was an outsider is precisely why he was able to accomplish things nobody thought was possible.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

I love creative people.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I admire people who are creative.