Bill Watterson Quotes

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

The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

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

I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do. I want to skip to work. I don't want to repeat anything. What the future holds, I don't know, but that's what I like. I'll take any risk there is.

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit.

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

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

I always do something that I've never done before.

Every time, I try to make something different.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

What's missing from pop music is danger.

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

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

My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.

… embrace new ideas with energy!

I have a hatred of familiarity. If I feel like I am doing something I've done before, it feels old and done. I feel I have no choice but to strike out in directions that feel new - anything less just doesn't seem worth it.

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

If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.

When you try to create something different, there is always a mix of enthusiasm and skepticism, and I think this is fair.

I've always been quite careful about what I wanted to do. I've just never wanted to revisit old ground or do something that's easy. I want to do something that I would look at and go, "I don't know what to do!" The most exciting thing is when you're a bit scared, so I'm looking to find something that's really terrifying.

Movies that look safe are less interesting.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.