Michael Eisner Quotes

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

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?

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

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.

Creativity takes courage.

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

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.

It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.

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

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

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

No one knows what's a good idea or a bad idea until you try it.

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

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

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.'