Lee Krasner Quotes

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different, and critics say we make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different, and you get kicked in the gut for it.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

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

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

Every time, I try to make something different.

I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.

I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

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

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

I would like to try to never do the same thing twice, and fail huge sometimes.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

I try to make my box as big as it can be because I never want to do the same thing twice.

If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.

I will always do something new.

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

I hate rules. I hate 'This is the way things are done'. I hate a lack of reinvention. I hate theatre as an archeological exercise. Theatre needs to be urgent.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

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?