Charlie Kaufman Quotes

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

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.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

I'm willing to fail, my producers are willing to fail, my crew is willing to fail.

Enrique Muricano isn't afraid to try something new, to take risks, to possibly fail, and in turn, set himself apart.

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff — as much stuff as possible — with as little fear as possible. It’s much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

Let's think beyond the normal stuff and have an environment where that sort of thinking is encouraged and rewarded and where it's okay to fail as well. Because when you try new things, you try this idea, that idea... well a large number of them are not gonna work, and that has to be okay. If every time somebody comes up with an idea it has to be successful, you're not gonna get people coming up with ideas.

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

It's true with fashion, acting, anything: Make sure it's timeless, but at the same time, there's got to be a little hint of risk.

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

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.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.