Beverly Sills Quotes

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

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

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.

I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that they don't hold back anything. You never ever want someone to go, 'Oh I shouldn't have done that.' There isn't anything you shouldn't try. If it's terrible, who cares?

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

The best films come about through experimentation.

I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.

I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

The lower the cost of the film, the more you can experiment.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.