Kevin Feige Quotes

I want to go out there and do some different things that people are like, "Wow. That's crazy. Why didn't I think of that?"

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

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

I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it's a really big swing that I don't know if I'm going to connect on.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

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.

I like to try and be outside of the box or do things that other people aren't doing.

I always try to do something nobody else has done.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

Rhianna don't want you to give her what you think that she wants. She needs you to give her something that's fresh. So you have to bend your voice and bend your personality and bend the music to make sure it sounds like it's new to everybody.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

I always like doing things that no one's ever done before. Doing things a little out of the ordinary.

The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don't want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create - do something that is totally different and unusual.

I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

I think we had to push forward to make sure it was different, do something that we had never done before and yet still have the consistency to stay in the same world. This was our chance to do all the things we didn't get a chance to do before. We've been working on these movies [Kung Fu Panda] for twelve years and we have to keep things exciting for us in order for us to devote that many years of our lives to do this.

When you make something that everyone likes, it's very easy to say, "Well, I'll just repeat that." Because that was easy. I have a formula. But creatively, it's not very interesting.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one's work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be.

We're just gonna keep making things and challenging ourselves to make them more cheaply and more renegade and more interesting. That's the only thing we might challenge ourselves to do in the age of so many movies and so many TV shows. We're aware that we're asking time of people to watch stuff, and that there's so much stuff to watch, so we're gonna try to offer you something unique. And it may not always succeed, but it will definitely be different.

People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.