Shinichiro Watanabe Quotes

I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.

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.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

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.

I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

I've certainly had a number of failures along the way, depending on my own instincts and creativity, some fairly celebrated, at least during their time.

The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, you know what I mean?

Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.

There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.

I ask all my actors to do two things: I ask them to fail for me, and I ask them to surprise me.

If we knew what we were doing we wouldn't be entertaining.

Anything edgy won't see instant success. That's why one will have to learn to wait. You're going to see a lot of failures.