James Burrows Quotes

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

As an actor, when you don't have a reference to pick from, you experiment, try out new things. And what comes of it eggs you on. You realize your capabilities and push your limits.

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.

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?

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

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

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

I'd rather risk confusion and stay creatively fresh and stimulated. I feel like I'm growing and challenging myself all the time.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas - ideas they know will work and have worked in the past.

The child in me wanted to try out new things and do something different.

Creating content and never being afraid to try something new have been my two hallmarks.

I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.

We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

Over the years, I discovered over and over again that once you lose control, you have a chance of getting good at it. And once you're controlling the work, it's not going to be very good, or it won't be as good as it should be.